[vbox-dev] please change large local variable to heap in VCICache.cpp

Frank Mehnert frank.mehnert at oracle.com
Wed Jun 1 14:39:32 GMT 2011


Huihong,

On Sunday 29 May 2011 20:52:22 Huihong Luo wrote:
> abBitmapBuffer[16*_1K] may cause stack overflow in kernel mode.
>  
> I have attached the modified version and diff to latest svn code.

that code runs never in kernel mode but always in ring 3. Therefore
a stack overflow is unlikely.

Kind regards,

Frank
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