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Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: wireless: ath: ath9: dfs: remove VLA usage

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On 3/9/2018 1:30 PM, Andreas Christoforou wrote:
The kernel would like to have all stack VLA usage removed.

I think there was a remark made earlier to give more explanation here. It should explain why we want "VLA on stack" removed.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Christoforou <andreaschristofo@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dfs.c | 3 +--
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dfs.c
index 6fee9a4..cfb0f84 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dfs.c
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ static const int BIN_DELTA_MAX		= 10;

  /* we need at least 3 deltas / 4 samples for a reliable chirp detection */
  #define NUM_DIFFS 3
-static const int FFT_NUM_SAMPLES	= (NUM_DIFFS + 1);

  /* Threshold for difference of delta peaks */
  static const int MAX_DIFF		= 2;
@@ -101,7 +100,7 @@ static bool ath9k_check_chirping(struct ath_softc *sc, u8 *data,
  				 int datalen, bool is_ctl, bool is_ext)
  {
  	int i;
-	int max_bin[FFT_NUM_SAMPLES];
+	int max_bin[NUM_DIFFS + 1];

Just wondering. Is this actually a VLA. FFT_NUM_SAMPLES was static const so not really going to show a lot of variation. This array will always have the same size on the stack.

Regards,
Arend




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