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