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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:37:47 -0400
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
Cc: hare@...e.com, axboe@...nel.dk, jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] device_handler: remove VLAs


Stephen,

> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLAs and replace them with
> fixed-length arrays instead.
>
> scsi_dh_{alua,emc,rdac} use variable-length array declarations to
> store command blocks, with the appropriate size as determined by
> COMMAND_SIZE. This patch replaces these with fixed-sized arrays using
> MAX_COMMAND_SIZE, so that the array size can be determined at compile
> time.

Applied to 4.17/scsi-queue. Thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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