[PATCH] Endian swap ->count before handing over to the nx-842 compressor

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Nov 2 12:24:36 AEDT 2015


On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 15:13 -0700, Ram Pai wrote:

> The nx-842 compressor overshoots the output buffer corrupting memory. Verified
> that the following patch the issue on a LE system.

This seems like a bug fix, so it should go to stable shouldn't it? If so which
version(s) should it apply to?

And which commit introduced the breakage? Or has it always been broken?

cheers



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