From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: dsterba@suse.cz, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>, Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>,
Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: raid56: Remove VLA usage
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 18:08:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180530160843.GG3539@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180530151455.GE3539@twin.jikos.cz>
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 05:14:56PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:44:59PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> > allocates the working buffers during regular init, instead of using stack
> > space. This refactors the allocation code a bit to make it easier
> > to review.
> >
> > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com
For the record, so this was the last use of VLA in fs/btrfs/ .
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-30 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-29 23:44 Kees Cook
2018-05-30 15:14 ` David Sterba
2018-05-30 16:08 ` David Sterba [this message]
2018-05-30 20:49 ` Kees Cook
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