On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 16:26, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > > To be able to compile QEMU with -Wvla (to prevent potential security > issues), we need to get rid of the variable length array in the > kvmppc_save_htab() function. Replace it with a heap allocation instead. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > --- > target/ppc/kvm.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/target/ppc/kvm.c b/target/ppc/kvm.c > index 26fa9d0575..e7e39c3091 100644 > --- a/target/ppc/kvm.c > +++ b/target/ppc/kvm.c > @@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ int kvmppc_get_htab_fd(bool write, uint64_t index, > Error **errp) > int kvmppc_save_htab(QEMUFile *f, int fd, size_t bufsize, int64_t max_ns) > { > int64_t starttime = qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME); > - uint8_t buf[bufsize]; > + g_autofree uint8_t *buf = g_malloc(bufsize); > ssize_t rc; >
This works, so Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> but you could also drop the bufsize argument, because there are only two callers and they both pass MAX_KVM_BUF_SIZE, and then declare the array as fixed size with "uint8_t buf[MAX_KVM_BUF_SIZE]". thanks -- PMM