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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kiran Kankipati <kiran.kankipati@gmail.com>
Cc: "Don A. Bailey" <donb@securitymouse.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in Kernel's LZ4-HC in 64bit (kernel crypto library)
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:36:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140628173636.GA6664@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALWnrFQJX2JBssSQ-CdYbcewjbTna=xKS4GRmJ4fHaactwERmg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:02:19PM +0530, Kiran Kankipati wrote:
> I don't understand, are you having problems on the compress side, or the
> decompress side?  Where in the lz4 is a bug happening?
> >> Sorry sorry.
> I dont have a clue. Well the reason is, if compress is happening well and
> decomp is getting this issue. Then decomp is having a bug.
> If compression is corrupting data, then decomp may get this issue too. Hence I
> am not fully sure.
> But the error code happening in the decomp API.
> 
> 
> Do you have a data stream that I can use to run it through the lz4 code
> to see where the problem is in the compress/decompress code?
> >> Again sorry about it. Since  iam testing with real-time packets. I dont have
> it Greg.
> 
> I can copypaste the error logs of my TrafficSqueezer per-packet tests. Since  I
> am running a simulation test, I am doing each packet
> compression + decompression. This way I can test TrafficSqueezer stack. As well
> in our case we can test LZ4 too.
> 
> Kindly refer screenshot:
> 
> But please note, sometimes it works fine too. Sometimes I am getting this error
> :(
> 
> Its purely LZ4-HC error. Since the return code of
> lz4_decompress_unknownoutputsize() API is <0 i.e error !

As you are compressing and then decompressing, this doesn't look to be
the same "type" of error we have fixed recently, so I don't know what to
do here.

If you find a data stream that this can be tested with, please let me
know and I'll be glad to try it out.  Until then, I need more of a hint
as to the problem before I can do anything, sorry.

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-28 17:36 UTC|newest]

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2014-06-28 16:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found]   ` <CALWnrFRQ_VHzPtBe04n3xfeQu=kjw=TE+wotzyoTW5P6gdZ-zQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-06-28 16:20     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found]       ` <CALWnrFQJX2JBssSQ-CdYbcewjbTna=xKS4GRmJ4fHaactwERmg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-06-28 17:36         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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