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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2018-03-12 22:16:17 -0500
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2018-03-20 13:41:39 +0100
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netfilter: nf_tables: remove VLA usage
In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
with dynamic memory allocation.

>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 <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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