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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:19:16 -0400
From: okaya@...eaurora.org
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>, Dan Williams
<dan.j.williams@...el.com>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Kees Cook
<keescook@...omium.org>, dmaengine-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: dmatest: Remove use of VLAs
On 2018-04-09 19:14, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 04/09/2018 03:48 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> On 4/9/2018 5:06 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>> + /* dst_cnt can't be more than u8 */
>>> + dma_addr_t dma_pq[255];
>>
>> This is 2k stack space on 64 bit architectures. Isn't that a lot?
>>
>
> Depends on your definition of 'a lot'. My assumption was that
> since this was a test module there would be some willingness
> to be a bit more generous. The problem is the array size is
> based off of the parameters passed in, although oddly enough
> it's based off of the minimum of two variables. If you have
> a suggestion for a tighter bound we can use that. Another
> option is to just switch to allocating the array with kmalloc.
> That might be reasonable here since there's other setup
> that happens before the test starts.
I think allocation is a better choice.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura
>
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