On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Ben Skeggs <skeg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 14 March 2018 at 21:08, Thierry Reding <thierry.red...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:24:11AM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: >>>> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA. In this particular >>>> case directly use macro NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE instead of local >>>> variable cmdline_size. Also, remove cmdline_size as it is not >>>> actually useful anymore. >>>> >>>> The use of stack Variable Length Arrays needs to be avoided, as they >>>> can be a vector for stack exhaustion, which can be both a runtime bug >>>> or a security flaw. Also, in general, as code evolves it is easy to >>>> lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having runtime >>>> failures that are hard to debug. >>>> >>>> Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from >>>> the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com> >>>> --- >>>> Changes in v2: >>>> - Use sizeof(buf) instead of NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE. This change >>>> is based on the feedback provided by David Laight. Thanks David. >>>> >>>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c | 7 >>>> +++---- >>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >>> >>> Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <tred...@nvidia.com> >> Thanks everyone. I've taken the patch in my tree. > > Hi! > > Just checking in on this -- I don't see this patch in linux-next. Is > this queued somewhere else?
Hi, it's been another month; I still don't see this in linux-next. Daniel, can this go via drm-misc? -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
