+ vsprintf-remove-accidental-vla-usage-fix.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: vsprintf-remove-accidental-vla-usage-fix
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     vsprintf-remove-accidental-vla-usage-fix.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/vsprintf-remove-accidental-vla-usage-fix.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/vsprintf-remove-accidental-vla-usage-fix.patch

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: vsprintf-remove-accidental-vla-usage-fix

Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 lib/vsprintf.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN lib/vsprintf.c~vsprintf-remove-accidental-vla-usage-fix lib/vsprintf.c
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c~vsprintf-remove-accidental-vla-usage-fix
+++ a/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ char *resource_string(char *buf, char *e
 #define FLAG_BUF_SIZE		(2 * sizeof(res->flags))
 #define DECODED_BUF_SIZE	sizeof("[mem - 64bit pref window disabled]")
 #define RAW_BUF_SIZE		sizeof("[mem - flags 0x]")
+/* regular max() tricks gcc into creating a variable length array */
 #define SIMPLE_MAX(x, y)	((x) > (y) ? (x) : (y))
 	char sym[SIMPLE_MAX(2*RSRC_BUF_SIZE + DECODED_BUF_SIZE,
 			    2*RSRC_BUF_SIZE + FLAG_BUF_SIZE + RAW_BUF_SIZE)];
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

i-need-old-gcc.patch
mm-memblock-hardcode-the-end_pfn-being-1-fix.patch
mm-memblock-hardcode-the-end_pfn-being-1-fix-fix.patch
arm-arch-arm-include-asm-pageh-needs-personalityh.patch
ocfs2-without-quota-support-try-to-avoid-calling-quota-recovery-checkpatch-fixes.patch
mm.patch
mm-initialize-pages-on-demand-during-boot-fix-4-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-skip-over-regions-of-invalid-pfns-on-uma-fix.patch
direct-io-minor-cleanups-in-do_blockdev_direct_io-fix.patch
mm-fix-races-between-swapoff-and-flush-dcache-fix.patch
list_lru-prefetch-neighboring-list-entries-before-acquiring-lock-fix.patch
mm-oom-cgroup-aware-oom-killer-fix.patch
mm-oom-docs-describe-the-cgroup-aware-oom-killer-fix-2-fix.patch
proc-add-seq_put_decimal_ull_width-to-speed-up-proc-pid-smaps-fix.patch
vsprintf-remove-accidental-vla-usage-fix.patch
sysctl-add-flags-to-support-min-max-range-clamping-fix.patch
linux-next-rejects.patch
linux-next-git-rejects.patch
headers-untangle-kmemleakh-from-mmh-fix.patch
kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch
slab-leaks3-default-y.patch

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