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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/7] inflate pt1: clean up input logic
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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...

-hpa
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