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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:32:17 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To: 'Daniel Micay' <danielmicay@...il.com>, Arend van Spriel
<arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
CC: Andreas Christoforou <andreaschristofo@...il.com>, Kees Cook
<keescook@...omium.org>, Kernel Hardening
<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, QCA ath9k Development
<ath9k-devel@....qualcomm.com>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, Netdev
<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] drivers: net: wireless: ath: ath9: dfs: remove VLA usage
From: Daniel Micay
> Sent: 10 March 2018 23:45
>
> > Just wondering. Is this actually a VLA. FFT_NUM_SAMPLES was static const so
> > not really going to show a lot of variation. This array will always have the
> > same size on the stack.
>
> The issue is that unlike in C++, a `static const` can't be used in a
> constant expression in C. It's unclear why C is defined that way but
> it's how it is and there isn't currently a GCC extension making more
> things into constant expressions like C++.
'static' and 'const' are both just qualifiers to a 'variable'
You can still take it's address.
The language allows you to cast away the 'const' and write to
the variable - the effect is probably 'implementation defined'.
It is probably required to be valid for 'static const' items
to be patchable.
David
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