From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] XZ decompressor: Fix decoding of empty LZMA2 streams
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 16:11:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110504231146.GF26011@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105040122.36545.lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:22:36AM +0300, Lasse Collin wrote:
> On 2011-05-04 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> wrote:
> > > From: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
> > >
> > > The old code considered valid empty LZMA2 streams to be corrupt.
> > > Note that a typical empty .xz file has no LZMA2 data at all,
> > > and thus most .xz files having no uncompressed data are handled
> > > correctly even without this fix.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
> >
> > The patch didn't have the cc:stable tag, but appears to be needed in
> > 2.6.38.x and perhaps earlier, yes?
> >
> > It's commit 646032e3b05b32d3f20cb108a030593d9d792eb5 in mainline.
>
> Thanks. It's good for 2.6.38.x. Older ones don't have XZ support.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-01 16:38 [PATCH] XZ decompressor: Fix decoding of empty LZMA2 streams Lasse Collin
2011-05-03 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-03 22:22 ` Lasse Collin
2011-05-04 23:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
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