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Subject[PATCH 3/3] btrfs: tree-checker: Avoid accidental stack VLA
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In the quest to remove all stack VLAs from the kernel[1], this refactors
the stack array size calculation to avoid using max(), which makes the
compiler think the size isn't fixed.

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

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c
index c3c8d48f6618..59bd07694118 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c
@@ -341,7 +341,8 @@ static int check_dir_item(struct btrfs_root *root,
*/
if (key->type == BTRFS_DIR_ITEM_KEY ||
key->type == BTRFS_XATTR_ITEM_KEY) {
- char namebuf[max(BTRFS_NAME_LEN, XATTR_NAME_MAX)];
+ char namebuf[SIMPLE_MAX(BTRFS_NAME_LEN,
+ XATTR_NAME_MAX)];

read_extent_buffer(leaf, namebuf,
(unsigned long)(di + 1), name_len);
--
2.7.4
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