Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 May 2011 16:11:46 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] [PATCH] XZ decompressor: Fix decoding of empty LZMA2 streams |
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On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:22:36AM +0300, Lasse Collin wrote: > On 2011-05-04 Andrew Morton wrote: > > Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> wrote: > > > From: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> > > > > > > The old code considered valid empty LZMA2 streams to be corrupt. > > > Note that a typical empty .xz file has no LZMA2 data at all, > > > and thus most .xz files having no uncompressed data are handled > > > correctly even without this fix. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> > > > > The patch didn't have the cc:stable tag, but appears to be needed in > > 2.6.38.x and perhaps earlier, yes? > > > > It's commit 646032e3b05b32d3f20cb108a030593d9d792eb5 in mainline. > > Thanks. It's good for 2.6.38.x. Older ones don't have XZ support.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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