On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 10:40 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > This is the patch I've got prepared now that fixes for all VLAs have been > sent to maintainers (some are still under review/adjustment, but there > aren't any unexplored cases left). My intention would be to have this land > at the end of the next merge window after all the pending VLA patches > have landed. I just wanted to get any feedback here, since it touches > a couple areas in the process and I didn't want anyone to be surprised. :) [] > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile [] > @@ -778,6 +778,9 @@ NOSTDINC_FLAGS += -nostdinc -isystem $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=include) > # warn about C99 declaration after statement > KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,) > > +# VLAs should not be used anywhere in the kernel > +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wvla) I'd probably spell out what a VLA is here. # VLAs (Variable Length Arrays) should not be used anywhere in the kernel Beyond that, seems sensible, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
