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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] pstore: Do not use crash buffer for decompression
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 01:56:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXu5jKdO8icx63YDkqDsYP4_pNxRe5zUiVUg2+0mhbHj10zTg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181102182454.GB14942@google.com>

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 04:51:54PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>>  static void decompress_record(struct pstore_record *record)
>>  {
>> +     int ret;
>>       int unzipped_len;
>
> nit: We could get rid of the unzipped_len variable now I think.

I didn't follow this -- it gets used quite a bit. I don't see a clean
way to remove it?

>> +     workspace = kmalloc(unzipped_len + record->ecc_notice_size,
>
> Should tihs be unzipped_len + record->ecc_notice_size + 1. The extra byte
> being for the NULL character of the ecc notice?
>
> This occurred to me when I saw the + 1 in ram.c. It could be better to just
> abstract the size as a macro.

Ooh, yes, good catch. I'll get this fixed.

Thanks for the review!

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-14  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-01 23:51 [PATCH 0/8] pstore improvements (pstore-next) Kees Cook
2018-11-01 23:51 ` [PATCH linux-next 1/8] pstore/ram: Standardize module name in ramoops Kees Cook
2018-11-01 23:51 ` [PATCH 2/8] pstore: Do not use crash buffer for decompression Kees Cook
2018-11-02 18:24   ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-14  7:56     ` Kees Cook [this message]
2018-11-20 21:43       ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-29 22:06       ` Kees Cook
2018-11-30  2:26         ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-01 23:51 ` [PATCH 3/8] pstore/ram: Report backend assignments with finer granularity Kees Cook
2018-11-01 23:51 ` [PATCH 4/8] pstore/ram: Add kern-doc for struct persistent_ram_zone Kees Cook
2018-11-01 23:51 ` [PATCH 5/8] pstore: Improve and update some comments and status output Kees Cook
2018-11-01 23:51 ` [PATCH 6/8] pstore: Replace open-coded << with BIT() Kees Cook
2018-11-01 23:51 ` [PATCH 7/8] pstore: Remove needless lock during console writes Kees Cook
2018-11-02 18:32   ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-02 20:40     ` Kees Cook
2018-11-02 21:50       ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-01 23:52 ` [PATCH 8/8] pstore/ram: Correctly calculate usable PRZ bytes Kees Cook
2018-11-02 18:01   ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-02 20:00     ` Kees Cook
2018-11-05  4:42       ` Joel Fernandes
2018-11-05 17:04         ` Kees Cook
2018-11-06  4:42           ` Joel Fernandes

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