Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/7] inflate pt1: clean up input logic | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:26:05 -0800 (PST) |
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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...
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