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We're interested in getting rid of all of the stack allocated arrays in the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 This case is interesting, since we really just need an array of bytes that are zero. The loop already ensures that if the array isn't exactly the right size that enough zero bytes will be copied in. So, instead of choosing this value to be the size of the hash, let's just choose it to be 32, since that is a common size, is not too big, and will not result in too many extra iterations of the loop. v2: split out from other patch, just hardcode array size instead of dynamically allocating something the right size v3: fix typo of 256 -> 32 Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> CC: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> CC: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> CC: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.