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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] inflate pt1: clean up input logic
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:26:05 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dul4qd$100$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060225212247.GC15276@flint.arm.linux.org.uk

Followup to:  <20060225212247.GC15276@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
By author:    Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> All these are to do with decompressing a compressed kernel.  If they
> fail, halting is perfectly reasonable because we probably don't have
> an executable kernel.  Your arguments are fine for these.  But, that's
> not the full story - there are two more places where this code is
> used:
> 
> init/do_mounts_rd.c:#include "../lib/inflate.c"
> init/initramfs.c:#include "../lib/inflate.c"
> 
> for these your arguments that halting is fine is _NOT_ correct nor is it
> desirable.  The first of these is the cause of the problems both myself
> and others saw, as detailed in the URL I posted previously in this thread.
> Did you read that post?
> 

These probably should use lib/zlib instead...

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-07 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2006-02-24 20:12 ` [PATCH 4/7] inflate pt1: start moving globals into iostate Matt Mackall
2006-02-24 20:12 ` [PATCH 1/7] inflate pt1: lindent and manual formatting changes Matt Mackall
2006-02-24 20:12 ` [PATCH 3/7] inflate pt1: clean up input logic Matt Mackall
2006-02-24 22:19   ` Russell King
2006-02-25  6:51     ` Matt Mackall
2006-02-25  8:49       ` Russell King
2006-02-25  8:55         ` Russell King
2006-02-25  9:04           ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-25  9:09             ` Russell King
2006-02-25 14:54         ` Matt Mackall
2006-02-25 18:05           ` Russell King
2006-02-25 21:04             ` Matt Mackall
2006-02-25 21:22               ` Russell King
2006-02-25 21:47                 ` Matt Mackall
2006-02-25 21:58                   ` Russell King
2006-02-25 22:37                     ` Matt Mackall
2006-02-25 22:57                       ` Russell King
2006-02-27  1:18                         ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-02-27  8:32                           ` Russell King
2006-02-27 12:07                             ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-02-27 15:47                               ` Russell King
2006-02-27  9:06                         ` Matt Mackall
2006-02-25 22:25                   ` John Reiser
2006-03-07 23:26                 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-03-10 18:55                   ` Matt Mackall
2006-02-24 20:12 ` [PATCH 2/7] inflate pt1: kill legacy bits Matt Mackall
2006-02-24 20:12 ` [PATCH 7/7] inflate pt1: eliminate memzero usage Matt Mackall
2006-02-24 20:12 ` [PATCH 6/7] inflate pt1: internalize CRC calculation, cleanup table calculation Matt Mackall
2006-02-24 20:12 ` [PATCH 5/7] inflate pt1: cleanup Huffman table code Matt Mackall
2006-02-24 21:52   ` John Reiser
2006-02-24 22:06     ` Matt Mackall

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