4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Tobin C. Harding" me@tobin.cc
[ Upstream commit 486e6661367b40f927aadbed73237693396cbf94 ]
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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c @@ -39,14 +39,18 @@ static void mmc_pwrseq_simple_set_gpios_ struct gpio_descs *reset_gpios = pwrseq->reset_gpios;
if (!IS_ERR(reset_gpios)) { - int i; - int values[reset_gpios->ndescs]; + int i, *values; + int nvalues = reset_gpios->ndescs;
- for (i = 0; i < reset_gpios->ndescs; i++) + values = kmalloc_array(nvalues, sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!values) + return; + + for (i = 0; i < nvalues; i++) values[i] = value;
- gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep( - reset_gpios->ndescs, reset_gpios->desc, values); + gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep(nvalues, reset_gpios->desc, values); + kfree(values); } }