linux-kernel - [PATCH] lib/decompress: Set the compressor name to NULL on error

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:14:09 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	" H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/decompress: Set the compressor name to NULL on error

Without this we end up using the previous name of the compressor
in the loop in unpack_rootfs. For example we get errors like
"compression method gzip not configured" even when we have
CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP enabled.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 lib/decompress.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/decompress.c b/lib/decompress.c
index 528ff932d8e4..62696dff5730 100644
--- a/lib/decompress.c
+++ b/lib/decompress.c
@@ -59,8 +59,11 @@ decompress_fn __init decompress_method(const unsigned char *inbuf, long len,
 {
 	const struct compress_format *cf;
 
-	if (len < 2)
+	if (len < 2) {
+		if (name)
+			*name = NULL;
 		return NULL;	/* Need at least this much... */
+	}
 
 	pr_debug("Compressed data magic: %#.2x %#.2x\n", inbuf[0], inbuf[1]);
 
-- 
2.1.4

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