The ALLOCA(3) man-page mentions its "use is discouraged". Replace a g_alloca() call by a g_malloc() one, moving the allocation before the MUTEX guarded block. Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx> --- backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c b/backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c index e5f1063ab6c..d37a6d563a3 100644 --- a/backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c +++ b/backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c @@ -124,10 +124,9 @@ static int tpm_emulator_ctrlcmd(TPMEmulator *tpm, unsigned long cmd, void *msg, CharBackend *dev = &tpm->ctrl_chr; uint32_t cmd_no = cpu_to_be32(cmd); ssize_t n = sizeof(uint32_t) + msg_len_in; - uint8_t *buf = NULL; + g_autofree uint8_t *buf = g_malloc(n); WITH_QEMU_LOCK_GUARD(&tpm->mutex) { - buf = g_alloca(n); memcpy(buf, &cmd_no, sizeof(cmd_no)); memcpy(buf + sizeof(cmd_no), msg, msg_len_in); -- 2.26.3