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Kees Cook
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On the quest to remove all VLAs from the kernel[1] this adjusts several cases where allocation is made after an array of structures that points back into the allocation. The allocations are changed to perform explicit calculations instead of using a Variable Length Array in a structure. Additionally, this lets Clang compile this code now, since Clang does not support VLAIS[2]. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFy6h1c3_rP_bXFedsTXzwW+9Q9MfJaW7GUmMBrAp-fJ9A@mail.gmail.com [keescook@chromium.org: v2] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180418163546.GA45794@beast Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180327203904.GA1151@beast Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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