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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm] reiser4: remove lzo compression security hole
Richard Purdie wrote:

>Switch reiser4 to use lzo1x_decompress_safe instead of lzo1x_decompress
>as otherwise it presents a security hole (lzo1x_decompress doesn't
>perform bounds checking on the decompressed data).
>
>Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
>
>---
> fs/reiser4/plugin/compress/compress.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>Index: linux-2.6.21/fs/reiser4/plugin/compress/compress.c
>===================================================================
>--- linux-2.6.21.orig/fs/reiser4/plugin/compress/compress.c 2007-05-16 20:47:45.000000000 +0100
>+++ linux-2.6.21/fs/reiser4/plugin/compress/compress.c 2007-05-24 23:43:28.000000000 +0100
>@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ lzo1_decompress(coa_t coa, __u8 * src_fi
> assert("edward-851", coa == NULL);
> assert("edward-852", src_len != 0);
>
>- result = lzo1x_decompress(src_first, src_len, dst_first, &dstlen, NULL);
>+ result = lzo1x_decompress_safe(src_first, src_len, dst_first, &dstlen, NULL);
> if (result != LZO_E_OK)
> warning("edward-853", "lzo1x_1_decompress failed\n");
> *dst_len = dstlen;
>
>
>

Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
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