linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix ppc32 zImage inflate

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Message-ID: <87lkqoj564.fsf@slug.be.48ers.dk>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:01:23 +0200
From:	Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@...site.dk>
To:	rpurdie@...ys.net
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ppc32 zImage inflate

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@...site.dk> writes:

 Peter> Hi,
 Peter> The recent zlib update (commit
 Peter> 4f3865fb57a04db7cca068fed1c15badc064a302) broke ppc32 zImage
 Peter> decompression as it tries to decompress to address zero and the
 Peter> updated zlib_inflate checks that strm->next_out isn't a null pointer.

 Peter> This little patch fixes it.

Crap - forgot to sign off :/

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@...site.dk>

diff -Naur linux-2.6.18-rc2.orig/lib/zlib_inflate/inflate.c linux-2.6.18-rc2/lib/zlib_inflate/inflate.c
--- linux-2.6.18-rc2.orig/lib/zlib_inflate/inflate.c	2006-07-20 10:26:21.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc2/lib/zlib_inflate/inflate.c	2006-07-20 17:02:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@
     static const unsigned short order[19] = /* permutation of code lengths */
         {16, 17, 18, 0, 8, 7, 9, 6, 10, 5, 11, 4, 12, 3, 13, 2, 14, 1, 15};
 
-    if (strm == NULL || strm->state == NULL || strm->next_out == NULL ||
+    if (strm == NULL || strm->state == NULL ||
         (strm->next_in == NULL && strm->avail_in != 0))
         return Z_STREAM_ERROR;

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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