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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.