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In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLAs and replace them with fixed-length arrays instead. >From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having segfaults 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 <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
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