Re: [PATCH v3] isofs compress: Remove VLA usage

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:33 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 04:45:32PM -0700, Kyle Spiers wrote:
>> As part of the effort to remove VLAs from the kernel[1], this changes
>> the allocation of the bhs and pages arrays from being on the stack to being
>> kcalloc()ed. This also allows for the removal of the explicit zeroing
>> of bhs.
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>
> Do you even bother reading the feedback given to such patches?  I'm just
> curious,

He made a tool mistake (sent v2 again) -- please see v4.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security