On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 at 01:36, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 07:42:09PM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote: > > The pstore infrastructure is capable of compressing collected logs, > > relying for that in many compression "libraries" present on kernel. > > Happens that the (de)compression code in pstore performs many > > implicit conversions from unsigned int/size_t to int, and vice-versa. > > Specially in the compress buffer size calculation, we notice that > > even the libs are not consistent, some of them return int, most of > > them unsigned int and others rely on preprocessor calculation. > > > > Here is an attempt to make it consistent: since we're talking > > about buffer sizes, let's go with unsigned types, since negative > > sizes don't make sense. > > Thanks for this! I want to go through this more carefully, but I'm a fan > of the clean-up. I'd also like to get Ard's compression refactor landed > again, and then do this on top of it. > Isn't this the stuff we want to move into the crypto API?
