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SubjectRe: [PATCH] jffs2: check dstlen for jffs2_zlib_compress()
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Am Montag, 21. Januar 2019, 09:59:10 CET schrieb yang.yang29@zte.com.cn:
> Thanks for reply.
> But I think if (*dstlen < 2) is not good enough.

Not enough in terms of what?
My patch does what the commit message says, it fixes the out of bound access.
What do I miss?

> Because if the length of data_in is equals to 2, the length of output compressed data is also 2.
> So there's no meaning to do all the compress calculates.
>
> And I had do an experiment:
> If dstlen equals to 3, and data_in has 3 same bytes, the length of output compressed data will be 2.
> Which means compress is effective.

This is a different issue and a possible further optimization.

Thanks,
//richard



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