From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/power/64: Remove VLA usage
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:52:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180716085235.GB3047@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180716035657.GA32180@beast>
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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@mail.gmail.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
, provided it was tested.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-16 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-16 3:56 [PATCH] x86/power/64: Remove VLA usage Kees Cook
2018-07-16 8:52 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2018-07-16 17:22 ` Eric Biggers
2018-07-19 4:39 ` Kees Cook
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