4 Jul
2018
4 Jul
'18
3:44 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:47:40AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this switches to using a kmalloc allocation and moves all the size calculations to the start to do an allocation. If an upper bounds on the mode timing calculations could be determined, a fixed stack size could be used instead.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZW...
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org
Applied, thanks! Maxime
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