[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/pseries: Remove VLA from lparcfg_write()

Suraj Jitindar Singh sjitindarsingh at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 12:09:51 AEST 2018


In lparcfg_write we hard code kbuf_sz and then use this as the variable
length of kbuf creating a variable length array. Since we're hard coding
the length anyway just define the array using this as the length and
remove the need for kbuf_sz, thus removing the variable length array.

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
index 7c872dc01bdb..8bd590af488a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
@@ -585,8 +585,7 @@ static ssize_t update_mpp(u64 *entitlement, u8 *weight)
 static ssize_t lparcfg_write(struct file *file, const char __user * buf,
 			     size_t count, loff_t * off)
 {
-	int kbuf_sz = 64;
-	char kbuf[kbuf_sz];
+	char kbuf[64];
 	char *tmp;
 	u64 new_entitled, *new_entitled_ptr = &new_entitled;
 	u8 new_weight, *new_weight_ptr = &new_weight;
@@ -595,7 +594,7 @@ static ssize_t lparcfg_write(struct file *file, const char __user * buf,
 	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (count > kbuf_sz)
+	if (count > sizeof(kbuf))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, count))
-- 
2.13.6



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