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| author | Gustavo A. R. Silva | 2018-03-13 04:16:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso | 2018-03-20 13:41:39 +0100 |
| commit | 5b4c6e3860daaf089c28e0161dffef7b5ad8000f (patch) | |
| tree | 2d3b2876b1ba1481c5d3541bd482b0f2cfec0558 /mm/shmem.c | |
| parent | netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: Remove VLA usage (diff) | |
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netfilter: nf_tables: remove VLA usage
In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
with dynamic memory allocation.
>From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be
a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code
evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we
can end up having segfaults that are hard to debug.
Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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