Thread (89 messages) 89 messages, 18 authors, 2017-05-13

[kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode

From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: 2017-05-13 07:22:15
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On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:30:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On stack variable length arrays get implemented by the compiler doing
alloca(), and we sadly have a few of those around.
I've just got rid of one of those and I wish they would appear
entirely as they are horrible in so many different ways.  Sparse
warns about them, btw.
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