On 03/20/2018 07:36 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 07:21:38PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
with dynamic memory allocation.
From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be
a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code
evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we
can end up having segfaults that are hard to debug.
Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
also applied, thanks.
Awesome.
Thanks, Pablo.
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Gustavo
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