From: "Nitin Gupta" <nitingupta910@gmail.com>
To: "Michael-Luke Jones" <mlj28@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Richard Purdie" <richard@openedhand.com>,
linux-mm-cc@laptop.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 3
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:51:44 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4cefeab80705230721i492b5f1ehfa2d775344b1c04e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1CF43BBC-79EF-449B-A398-AE374E399573@cam.ac.uk>
On 5/23/07, Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 23 May 2007, at 15:03, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>
> >> Perhaps a rename is in order:
> >> lzo1x_decompress() => lzo1x_decompress_unsafe()
> >> lzo1x_decompress_safe => lzo1x_decompress()
> >
> > Or perhaps make reiserfs use _safe() instead - I think Richard has
> > already submitted patch for same.
>
> If someone's already made this mistake once, then it'll happen again.
> In-kernel memory corruption is no fun.
>
> Safe/Secure == Default
If I rename 'nonsafe' version as such then it will seem like its a
'broken' implementation which is not the case. If somebody is upto
including compression he must be having head to use the right
decompress version depending on this scenario :-)
- Nitin
>
> Michael-Luke
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-23 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-23 8:27 Nitin Gupta
2007-05-23 10:53 ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-23 11:39 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-23 13:57 ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-23 14:03 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-23 14:10 ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-23 14:21 ` Nitin Gupta [this message]
2007-05-23 14:33 ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-24 22:41 ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-24 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-24 23:00 ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-23 16:16 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-23 16:49 ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-24 4:04 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-25 10:42 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-26 10:23 ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-26 11:17 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-23 14:50 ` Bret Towe
2007-05-24 13:48 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-25 2:38 ` Bret Towe
2007-05-25 5:10 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-25 17:02 ` Bret Towe
2007-05-25 17:33 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-26 11:30 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-27 3:39 ` Bret Towe
2007-05-23 19:34 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-24 4:37 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-24 10:49 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-24 8:25 ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-24 11:07 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-24 14:29 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-24 19:12 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-24 14:20 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-24 20:09 ` Satyam Sharma
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