On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 07:57:28PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this > allocates the return code buffers before starting jiffie timers, rather > than using stack space for the array. Additionally cleans up some exit > paths and make sure that the num_mb module_param() is used only once > per execution to avoid possible races in the value changing. > > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
