Re: [PATCH 0/4] VLA removal from the GPIO subsystem

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Mar 13 2018 - 05:42:59 EST


On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 1:10 AM, Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For those who haven't seen it, there's an effort to remove VLAs from the
> kernel so we can turn on -Wvla in the name of security. See
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 for more details and discussion.

OK I read up on it, I'm on board! Less is more.

> This is a series to remove a few VLAs from the gpio subsystem. These are
> compile tested only so I'd appreciate reviews and tests from
> maintainers. When these get Acked, I expect these to just go through the
> GPIO tree like usual.

Sure I will just queue it up with ACKs, or if I just think it looks nice
and reliable.

Thank you for doing this!

Yours,
Linus Walleij