rtc: remove VLA usage
In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
with a fixed-length array instead.
>From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be
a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code
evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we
can end up having segfaults that are hard to debug.
Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mcp795.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mcp795.c
index 79e24ea..00e11c1 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mcp795.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mcp795.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static int mcp795_rtcc_write(struct device *dev, u8 addr, u8 *data, u8 count)
{
struct spi_device *spi = to_spi_device(dev);
int ret;
- u8 tx[2 + count];
+ u8 tx[257];
tx[0] = MCP795_WRITE;
tx[1] = addr;