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SubjectRe: [PATCH] m68k/atari: Avoid VLA use in atari_switches_setup()
Hi Arnd,

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:25 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:29 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > With gcc 7.3.0:
> >
> > arch/m68k/atari/config.c: In function ‘atari_switches_setup’:
> > arch/m68k/atari/config.c:151:2: warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘switches’ [-Wvla]
> > char switches[strlen(str) + 1];
> > ^~~~
> >
> > Replace the variable size by the maximum kernel command line size (512
> > bytes), which is an upper limit for all suboptions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
>
> Seems fine as long as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE never grows a lot. Some

If that ever happens, it will be caught by -Wframe-larger-than=1024.

> architectures use 1024 or 2048, but m68k currently has 256 (you write
> 512 here).

Thanks for noticing, will fix!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds

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