The use of stack Variable Length Arrays needs to be avoided, as they
can be a vector for stack exhaustion, which can be both a runtime bug
(kernel Oops) or a security flaw (overwriting memory beyond the
stack). Also, in general, as code evolves it is easy to lose track of
how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having runtime failures
that are hard to debug. As part of the directive[1] to remove all VLAs
from the kernel, and build with -Wvla.
Currently driver is using a VLA declared using the number of descriptors. This
array is used to store integer values and is later used as an argument to
`gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep()` This can be avoided by using
`kmalloc_array()` to allocate memory for the array of integer values. Memory is
free'd before return from function.
>From the code it appears that it is safe to sleep so we can use GFP_KERNEL
(based _cansleep() suffix of function `gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep()`.
It can be expected that this patch will result in a small increase in overhead
due to the use of `kmalloc_array()`
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
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