[Patch] NULL pointer deref with corrupted squashfs image
Phillip Lougher
phillip at lougher.demon.co.uk
Wed Jan 21 23:31:38 EST 2009
Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> Some callers of zlib_inflate() might accidentally pass a NULL
> pointer in strm->next_out which zlib_inflate() should catch.
> Others like the powerpc gunzip_partial expect to be able
> to extract a zImage to memory location 0. This introduces
> zlib_inflate_usafe() for those and adds a check for the rest
>
>
> + These two wrappers decide wheter strm->next_out gets checked for NULL.
"wheter" -> "whether"
Apart from that looks OK to me.
Phillip
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