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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2018-04-29 17:00:53 +0200
committerBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>2018-04-30 16:11:16 +0200
commit27ab41e2c183e960a045c8f3b87b2341a5f10f19 (patch)
tree0168e650060ee93e20af3692c9ddd98fbab0651d /drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c
parentmtd: Add sysfs attribute for mtd OOB available size (diff)
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mtd: nftl: Remove VLA usage
On the quest to remove all stack VLAs from the kernel[1] this changes the check_free_sectors() routine to use a kmalloc()ed buffer instead of a large VLA stack buffer. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c23
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c b/drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c
index aab4f68bd36f..2d598412972d 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/inftlmount.c
@@ -334,28 +334,37 @@ static int memcmpb(void *a, int c, int n)
static int check_free_sectors(struct INFTLrecord *inftl, unsigned int address,
int len, int check_oob)
{
- u8 buf[SECTORSIZE + inftl->mbd.mtd->oobsize];
struct mtd_info *mtd = inftl->mbd.mtd;
size_t retlen;
- int i;
+ int i, ret;
+ u8 *buf;
+
+ buf = kmalloc(SECTORSIZE + mtd->oobsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!buf)
+ return -1;
+ ret = -1;
for (i = 0; i < len; i += SECTORSIZE) {
if (mtd_read(mtd, address, SECTORSIZE, &retlen, buf))
- return -1;
+ goto out;
if (memcmpb(buf, 0xff, SECTORSIZE) != 0)
- return -1;
+ goto out;
if (check_oob) {
if(inftl_read_oob(mtd, address, mtd->oobsize,
&retlen, &buf[SECTORSIZE]) < 0)
- return -1;
+ goto out;
if (memcmpb(buf + SECTORSIZE, 0xff, mtd->oobsize) != 0)
- return -1;
+ goto out;
}
address += SECTORSIZE;
}
- return 0;
+ ret = 0;
+
+out:
+ kfree(buf);
+ return ret;
}
/*