linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] unlzo: Fix input buffer free

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Date:	Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:10:09 +0200
From:	Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>
To:	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unlzo: Fix input buffer free

On 2011-11-17 Sascha Hauer wrote:
> unlzo modifies the pointer to in_buf, so we have to free the
> original buffer, not the modified pointer.

The fix looks good.

> This only happens when a fill function is passed, a case which is
> currently unused in the kernel.

It is used for initrd decompression (not initramfs) in
init/do_mounts_rd.c in crd_load(). The problematic code can only get
run when the initrd is corrupt and thus the system will panic anyway.

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