on stack dynamic allocations

["Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Some places in the code uses variable-size allocation on stack..
For example from hmac_setkey():

	struct {
		struct shash_desc shash;
		char ctx[crypto_shash_descsize(hash)];
	} desc;


sparse complains

CHECK   crypto/hmac.c
crypto/hmac.c:57:47: error: bad constant expression

I like it instead of kmalloc..

But what is position of kernel community about it?

- Dmitry
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