Commit c5c2b118 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson

drm/i915: Warn against variable length arrays

VLA are strongly discouraged in the kernel due to ambiguity they impose
on the limited stack space and security concerns over manipulating the
stack frame. Add -Wvla to our compiler flags so that CI rejects them.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180313004055.25411-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
parent 7aa0b14e
......@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
# Note the danger in using -Wall -Wextra is that when CI updates gcc we
# will most likely get a sudden build breakage... Hopefully we will fix
# new warnings before CI updates!
subdir-ccflags-y := -Wall -Wextra
subdir-ccflags-y := -Wall -Wextra -Wvla
subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-parameter)
subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, type-limits)
subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, missing-field-initializers)
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