From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: keescook@chromium.org
Cc: allen.pais@oracle.com, pombredanne@nexb.com,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc64: viohs: Remove VLA usage
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:22:52 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180924.202252.1960552216624164256.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jL4q_FRn7ehDy4MtXpHanhtsu9M_RGKQMZ+by+Rq9ncKw@mail.gmail.com>
From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:17:55 -0700
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
>> allocates a fixed size array for the maximum number of cookies and
>> adds a runtime sanity check.
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1
>> RqZWA@mail.gmail.com
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> Friendly ping. Dave, can you take this?
I'll try to get to this soon, kinda backlogged at the moment.
Sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-25 3:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-05 22:03 Kees Cook
2018-09-25 3:17 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-25 3:22 ` David Miller [this message]
2018-10-08 5:57 ` David Miller
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