Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:14:22 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 05/21] x86, boot: Calculate decompression size during boot not build | From | Kees Cook <> |
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: > > * Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > >> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> >> >> Currently z_extract_offset is calculated in boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c. > > What is the high level meaning of z_extract_offset? I cannot tell without reading > the code - and the point of changelogs is for them to be readable without having > to read the code.
I'll clarify it in the changelog. (FWIW, it's the offset into the extraction buffer where it's safe to put the data-to-be-extracted).
> The rest of the changelog is pretty good.
Thanks!
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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