Now that we converted all variable-length allocations in the repository, add the -Wvla CPPFLAG to trigger a build failure if such allocation is used.
This should help avoiding vulnerabilities such CVE-2021-3527 (see commit range 3f67e2e7f13..05a40b172e4). Inspired-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> --- configure | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 4f374b48890..a78ff15b52f 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ ARFLAGS="${ARFLAGS-rv}" # provides these semantics.) QEMU_CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fwrapv $QEMU_CFLAGS" QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes $QEMU_CFLAGS" -QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls $QEMU_CFLAGS" +QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wvla $QEMU_CFLAGS" QEMU_CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE $QEMU_CFLAGS" # Flags that are needed during configure but later taken care of by Meson -- 2.26.3