linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] LZO: Further cleanup of the kernel LZO library headers

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Message-ID: <20070518160507.GI10873@zakalwe.fi>
Date:	Fri, 18 May 2007 19:05:07 +0300
From:	Heikki Orsila <shdl@...alwe.fi>
To:	Richard Purdie <richard@...nedhand.com>
Cc:	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] LZO: Further cleanup of the kernel LZO library headers

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 03:51:26PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> A further cleanup of the kernel LZO library headers which untangles and
> removes ~400 lines of defines. This doesn't change the core minilzo code
> so diffability is maintained.

You should just throw away that. Guptas implementation is much cleaner, 
work with that. Putting a few bound checks into Guptas version will 
solve crashes and overruns by returning an error.

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