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From: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] XZ decompressor: Fix decoding of empty LZMA2 streams
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 01:22:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105040122.36545.lasse.collin@tukaani.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110503143620.c6b4d272.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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.

-- 
Lasse Collin  |  IRC: Larhzu @ IRCnet & Freenode

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-03 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-01 16:38 Lasse Collin
2011-05-03 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-03 22:22   ` Lasse Collin [this message]
2011-05-04 23:11     ` [stable] " Greg KH

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