The ALLOCA(3) man-page mentions its "use is discouraged". Use autofree heap allocation instead, replacing it by a g_malloc call. Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx> --- target/ppc/kvm.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/target/ppc/kvm.c b/target/ppc/kvm.c index 104a308abb5..23c4ea377e8 100644 --- a/target/ppc/kvm.c +++ b/target/ppc/kvm.c @@ -2698,11 +2698,11 @@ int kvmppc_save_htab(QEMUFile *f, int fd, size_t bufsize, int64_t max_ns) int kvmppc_load_htab_chunk(QEMUFile *f, int fd, uint32_t index, uint16_t n_valid, uint16_t n_invalid, Error **errp) { - struct kvm_get_htab_header *buf; + g_autofree struct kvm_get_htab_header *buf = NULL; size_t chunksize = sizeof(*buf) + n_valid * HASH_PTE_SIZE_64; ssize_t rc; - buf = alloca(chunksize); + buf = g_malloc(chunksize); buf->index = index; buf->n_valid = n_valid; buf->n_invalid = n_invalid; -- 2.26.3