[Libguestfs] [PATCH libnbd] configure: Ban use of Variable Length Arrays (VLAs).

[Eric Blake]

On 9/5/19 6:38 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Since we don't know much about the calling environment, which might
> have a limited stack, might be taking input from untrusted sources, or
> we might not have other stack protections enabled, it's best to be
> cautious about using unbounded stack allocations.
> 
> We're not in fact using them in libnbd, but this change prevents them
> from being added in future.
> ---
>  configure.ac | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

ACK

> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 6ea3197..0332d77 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([gcc-warnings],
>        [gcc_warnings=no]
>  )
>  if test "x$gcc_warnings" = "xyes"; then
> -    WARNINGS_CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror"
> +    WARNINGS_CFLAGS="-Wall -Wvla -Werror"
>      AC_SUBST([WARNINGS_CFLAGS])
>  fi
>  
> 

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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