linux-kernel - Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] LZO irreversible output?

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Message-ID: <874olq1fis.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
Date:	Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:32:27 +0000
From:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
To:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...a.org.au>
Cc:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>,
	tuxonice-devel@...ts.tuxonice.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] LZO irreversible output?

On 8 Feb 2010, Nigel Cunningham verbalised:
> That said, the actual code that TuxOnIce uses does already initialise
> the variable to PAGE_SIZE, so it seems that I might just have to run
> with the checking code enabled (with this fix) for a while, until the
> issue is found.

If you push the fix somewhere I'll run with it as well and see if I can
make this problem happen again. (So far I've only seen it with both
compression and max_workers > 1, but I haven't done a systematic check
for this so it could be an illusion.)
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