Hi Gustavo, > In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it > with dynamic memory allocation instead. > > The use of stack Variable Length Arrays needs to be avoided, as they > can be a vector for stack exhaustion, which can be both a runtime bug > or a security flaw. Also, in general, as code evolves it is easy to > lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having runtime > failures that are hard to debug. > > Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from > the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changes in v2: > - Fix memory leak in previous patch. > > net/bluetooth/smp.c | 17 ++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
