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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 03:44:33 +0000
From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] gpio: Remove VLA from gpiolib
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 03:04 Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
> ret = gpio_chip_get_multiple(chip, mask, bits);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> + /*
> + * Go against style and intentionally do the check
> for
> + * performance reasons
> + */
> + if (mask != fastpath)
> + kfree(mask);
>
Sorry, but that comment is now both unnecessary and actively wrong. You
can't kfree a stack array, so the check is required, hence certainly not
against style :-)
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