Re: [PATCH] x86/power/64: Remove VLA usage

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Jul 16 2018 - 04:52:39 EST


On Sun 2018-07-15 20:56:57, Kees Cook wrote:
> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> removes the discouraged use of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK by switching to
> shash directly and allocating the descriptor in heap memory (which should
> be fine: the tfm has already been allocated there too).
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>

, provided it was tested.

Pavel

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