On 9 March 2018 at 13:21, Andreas Christoforou <andreaschrist...@gmail.com> wrote: > The kernel would like to have all stack VLA usage removed[1]. > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Christoforou <andreaschrist...@gmail.com> > --- > net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c | 8 +++++++- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c > index b15075a..45c0d98 100644 > --- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c > +++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c > @@ -62,7 +62,12 @@ __xfrm6_sort(void **dst, void **src, int n, int > (*cmp)(void *p), int maxclass) > { > int i; > int class[XFRM_MAX_DEPTH]; > - int count[maxclass]; > + int *count; > + > + count = kcalloc(maxclass + 1, sizeof(*count), GFP_KERNEL); > + > + if (!count) > + return -ENOMEM; > > memset(count, 0, sizeof(count)); > > @@ -80,6 +85,7 @@ __xfrm6_sort(void **dst, void **src, int n, int (*cmp)(void > *p), int maxclass) > src[i] = NULL; > } > > + kfree(count); > return 0; > }
Instead of dynamically allocating and freeing memory here, shouldn't we just get rid of the maxclass parameter and use XFRM_MAX_DEPTH as size for the count[] array, too? Cheers, Mathias