Re: [Patch] NULL pointer deref with corrupted squashfs image

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 05:47:14PM +0100, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> * Jörn Engel (joern@logfs.org) wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 January 2009 16:07:00 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > 
> > > Sounds like a plan to me, except maybe zlib_inflate_unsafe() and a
> > > comment above the wrapper saying what/why is going on?
> > 
> > Eric, will you do the honors?  Since you did all the hard work before,
> > you derserve the fame as well. :)
> 
> Since I am not sure either about xtensa I added chris to the cc list.

How about we just change all callers from arch/*/boot to use the _unsafe
version?  Then..

> +/*
> +    These two wrappers decide wheter strm->next_out gets checked for NULL.
> +    The zlib_inflate_unsafe() version got added because the PPC zImage
> +    gets extracted to memory address 0 and therefore
> +    we avoid this check for zlib_inflate_unsafe()

These two wrappers decide wheter strm->next_out gets checked for NULL.
The zlib_inflate_unsafe() version is primarily used in the pre-Linux
'boot' directory code to allow for extraction to memory address 0 and
therefore we avoid this check.

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Tom Rini
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