Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.1] hw/ssi/xilinx_spips: Avoid variable length array

[Francisco Iglesias]

On [2019 Mar 28] Thu 15:26:35, Peter Maydell wrote:
> In the stripe8() function we use a variable length array; however
> we know that the maximum length required is MAX_NUM_BUSSES. Use
> a fixed-length array and an assert instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Francisco Iglesias <address@hidden>

> ---
>  hw/ssi/xilinx_spips.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ssi/xilinx_spips.c b/hw/ssi/xilinx_spips.c
> index 16f88f74029..c615058cc1b 100644
> --- a/hw/ssi/xilinx_spips.c
> +++ b/hw/ssi/xilinx_spips.c
> @@ -429,12 +429,14 @@ static void xlnx_zynqmp_qspips_reset(DeviceState *d)
>  
>  static inline void stripe8(uint8_t *x, int num, bool dir)
>  {
> -    uint8_t r[num];
> -    memset(r, 0, sizeof(uint8_t) * num);
> +    uint8_t r[MAX_NUM_BUSSES];
>      int idx[2] = {0, 0};
>      int bit[2] = {0, 7};
>      int d = dir;
>  
> +    assert(num <= MAX_NUM_BUSSES);
> +    memset(r, 0, sizeof(uint8_t) * num);
> +
>      for (idx[0] = 0; idx[0] < num; ++idx[0]) {
>          for (bit[0] = 7; bit[0] >= 0; bit[0]--) {
>              r[idx[!d]] |= x[idx[d]] & 1 << bit[d] ? 1 << bit[!d] : 0;
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 
>