From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: keescook@chromium.org
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunvdc: Remove VLA usage
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:46:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181007.234641.2199470135547877917.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jKV3eLJJsemxNEjZuANRd8-TnRkMSmiztVyY5mgC2ySHw@mail.gmail.com>
From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 23:16:01 -0700
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 8:19 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
>>> moves the math for cookie calculation into macros and allocates a fixed
>>> size array for the maximum number of cookies and adds a runtime sanity check.
>>> (Note that the size was always fixed, but just hidden from the compiler.)
>>>
>>> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>
>> Friendly ping. Jens, can you take this?
>
> Dave, should this go via you instead? I'll take it via my tree if no
> one else wants it...
Please resend to me and CC: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org and I'll take it.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-08 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-06 0:09 Kees Cook
2018-09-25 3:19 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-08 6:16 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-08 6:46 ` David Miller [this message]
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