[Patch] NULL pointer deref with corrupted squashfs image
Tom Rini
trini at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jan 21 05:47:02 EST 2009
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 05:47:14PM +0100, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> * Jörn Engel (joern at logfs.org) wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 January 2009 16:07:00 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > >
> > > Sounds like a plan to me, except maybe zlib_inflate_unsafe() and a
> > > comment above the wrapper saying what/why is going on?
> >
> > Eric, will you do the honors? Since you did all the hard work before,
> > you derserve the fame as well. :)
>
> Since I am not sure either about xtensa I added chris to the cc list.
How about we just change all callers from arch/*/boot to use the _unsafe
version? Then..
> +/*
> + These two wrappers decide wheter strm->next_out gets checked for NULL.
> + The zlib_inflate_unsafe() version got added because the PPC zImage
> + gets extracted to memory address 0 and therefore
> + we avoid this check for zlib_inflate_unsafe()
These two wrappers decide wheter strm->next_out gets checked for NULL.
The zlib_inflate_unsafe() version is primarily used in the pre-Linux
'boot' directory code to allow for extraction to memory address 0 and
therefore we avoid this check.
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Tom Rini
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