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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 00:05:27 -0500
From: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Joern Engel <joern@...fs.org>,
"Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...orbit.com>, "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>,
Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>, Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Subject: Re: VLA removal (was Re: [RFC 2/2] lustre: use VLA_SAFE)
On 7 March 2018 at 13:09, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Building with -Wvla, I see 209 unique locations reported in 60 directories:
>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/srQxwPQS9s/
>
> Ok, that's not so bad. Maybe Greg could even add it to one of those
> things he encourages new people to do?
>
> Because at least *some* of them are pretty trivial. For example,
> looking at the core code, I was surprised to see something in
> lib/btree.c
Some are probably just the issue of technically having a VLA that's
not really a VLA:
static const int size = 5;
void foo(void) {
int x[size];
}
% gcc -c -Wvla foo.c
foo.c: In function ‘foo’:
foo.c:4:3: warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘x’ [-Wvla]
int x[size];
^~~
I don't really understand why the C standard didn't make `static
const` declarations usable as constant expressions like C++. They made
the pointer conversions more painful too.
It would be nice to get rid of those cases to use -Werror=vla though.
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