Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2018-03-26

Re: [PATCH v2] crypto/ecc: Remove stack VLA usage

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2018-03-16 15:56:32
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 01:57:02PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
On the quest to remove all VLAs from the kernel[1], this switches to
a pair of kmalloc regions instead of using the stack. This also moves
the get_random_bytes() after all allocations (and drops the needless
"nbytes" variable).

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Patch applied.  Thanks.
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