Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] crypto: xcbc: Remove VLA usage

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Jun 26 2018 - 13:05:35 EST




On 06/26/2018 11:50 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 5:54 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva
> <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 06/25/2018 06:06 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> warning-3 += -Wswitch-default
>>>
>>> This reminds me, though. Should _this_ one get moved to warning-1?
>>>
>>> $ git log next-20180625 --no-merges --grep 'mark expected switch
>>> fall-through' --oneline | wc -l
>>> 129
>>>
>>> Gustavo, have you checked recently how many of these are left? Maybe
>>> we can move this to default too?
>>>
>>
>> I just built today's kernel and we have a total of 704 fall-through warnings with -Wimplicit-fallthrough=2
>
> Wow; that's still a lot!
>
>> I think we might be able to do that in this development cycle.
>
> Do you think we could finish the rest of the unannotated ones this
> cycle? If not, we could upgrade from W=3 to W=1 since it's a condition
> we're actively trying to remove from the kernel...
>

Most definitely. I'm already on that!

Thanks
--
Gustavo