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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:46:41 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: sa1100: avoid VLA in sa1100_setup_mtd
To:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
        linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:30 AM Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 19:13:26 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 2:22 AM, Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:19:52 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:16 AM Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > > Oh, I thought I'd let you send a v2, but I can do it if you prefer.
> >
> > Olof just pointed out to me that neither fix landed for this? What's
> > needed for this?
>
> Nothing in particular, I was planning on sending a new version after
> -rc1 is out and then queue it for 4.21 (5.1?) (this patch came in a bit
> late, and I had already stopped taking patches for 4.20).
>
> If you consider this a fix or want to have it in 4.20 for other reasons,
> just let me know and I'll queue it to the -fixes branch.

We generally try to have a kernel that can be built in any configuration
without warnings, so please add it for v4.20.

        Arnd