Subject: [PATCH v3 ipsec-next] xfrm: remove VLA usage in __xfrm6_sort()

From: Kees Cook <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:46:51 -0700

In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage removed from the kernel[1],
just use XFRM_MAX_DEPTH as already done for the "class" array. In one
case, it'll do this loop up to 5, the other caller up to 6.

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

Co-developed-by: Andreas Christoforou <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email-masked]>
---
v3:
- adjust Subject and commit log (Steffen)
- use "= { }" instead of memset() (Stefano)
- reorder variables (Stefano)
v2:
- use XFRM_MAX_DEPTH for "count" array (Steffen and Mathias).
---
 net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c
index 16f434791763..eeb44b64ae7f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_state.c
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ xfrm6_init_temprop(struct xfrm_state *x, const struct xfrm_tmpl *tmpl,
 static int
 __xfrm6_sort(void **dst, void **src, int n, int (*cmp)(void *p), int maxclass)
 {
-	int i;
+	int count[XFRM_MAX_DEPTH] = { };
 	int class[XFRM_MAX_DEPTH];
-	int count[maxclass];
+	int i;
 
 	memset(count, 0, sizeof(count));
 
-- 
2.7.4

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security