gpio: Remove VLA from stmpe driver
authorLaura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:59:57 +0000 (10:59 -0700)
committerLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Thu, 24 May 2018 08:22:21 +0000 (10:22 +0200)
The new challenge is to remove VLAs from the kernel
(see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621)

The number of GPIOs on the supported chips is fairly small
so stack allocate to a known upper bound and spit out a warning
if any new chips have more gpios.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Reid <preid@electromag.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
drivers/gpio/gpio-stmpe.c

index f8d7d1cd8488ebe0a905b15ce69870003018ac06..8d6a5a7e612d0089a2af2ea8a3c7e675da437c51 100644 (file)
@@ -363,13 +363,15 @@ static struct irq_chip stmpe_gpio_irq_chip = {
        .irq_set_type           = stmpe_gpio_irq_set_type,
 };
 
+#define MAX_GPIOS 24
+
 static irqreturn_t stmpe_gpio_irq(int irq, void *dev)
 {
        struct stmpe_gpio *stmpe_gpio = dev;
        struct stmpe *stmpe = stmpe_gpio->stmpe;
        u8 statmsbreg;
        int num_banks = DIV_ROUND_UP(stmpe->num_gpios, 8);
-       u8 status[num_banks];
+       u8 status[DIV_ROUND_UP(MAX_GPIOS, 8)];
        int ret;
        int i;
 
@@ -434,6 +436,11 @@ static int stmpe_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
        struct stmpe_gpio *stmpe_gpio;
        int ret, irq;
 
+       if (stmpe->num_gpios > MAX_GPIOS) {
+               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Need to increase maximum GPIO number\n");
+               return -EINVAL;
+       }
+
        stmpe_gpio = kzalloc(sizeof(*stmpe_gpio), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!stmpe_gpio)
                return -ENOMEM;