The patch titled
Subject: lib/decompress: set the compressor name to NULL on error
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
lib-decompress-set-the-compressor-name-to-null-on-error.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-decompress-set-the-compressor-name-to-null-on-error.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-decompress-set-the-compressor-name-to-null-on-error.patch
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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: lib/decompress: set the compressor name to NULL on error
Without this we end up using the previous name of the compressor in the
loop in unpack_rootfs. For example we get errors like "compression method
gzip not configured" even when we have CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP enabled.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/decompress.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN lib/decompress.c~lib-decompress-set-the-compressor-name-to-null-on-error lib/decompress.c
--- a/lib/decompress.c~lib-decompress-set-the-compressor-name-to-null-on-error
+++ a/lib/decompress.c
@@ -59,8 +59,11 @@ decompress_fn __init decompress_method(c
{
const struct compress_format *cf;
- if (len < 2)
+ if (len < 2) {
+ if (name)
+ *name = NULL;
return NULL; /* Need at least this much... */
+ }
pr_debug("Compressed data magic: %#.2x %#.2x\n", inbuf[0], inbuf[1]);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
lib-decompress-set-the-compressor-name-to-null-on-error.patch
page-flags-trivial-cleanup-for-pagetrans-helpers.patch
page-flags-introduce-page-flags-policies-wrt-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_locked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-fs-io-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-lru-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-slb-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_reserved-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapbacked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapcache-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_mlocked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uncached-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uptodate-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-look-on-head-page-if-the-flag-is-encoded-in-page-mapping.patch
mm-sanitize-page-mapping-for-tail-pages.patch
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