Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2014 07:12:56 +0100 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lz4: add overrun checks to lz4_uncompress_unknownoutputsize() |
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>>> On 04.07.14 at 01:11, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Jan points out that I forgot to make the needed fixes to the > lz4_uncompress_unknownoutputsize() function to mirror the changes done > in lz4_decompress() with regards to potential pointer overflows.
Except that meanwhile Don agreed with my statement that neither this nor the two earlier patches really fix the issue. So rather than pushing this into 3.16 and stable trees, I wonder whether the two earlier ones shouldn't be reverted and then a clean and correct fix be applied.
Jan
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