+ lz4-fix-compression-decompression-signedness-mismatch.patch added to -mm tree

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Subject: + lz4-fix-compression-decompression-signedness-mismatch.patch added to -mm tree
To: sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx,geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,kyungsik.lee@xxxxxxx,yann.collet.73@xxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:34:15 -0700


The patch titled
     Subject: lz4: fix compression/decompression signedness mismatch
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     lz4-fix-compression-decompression-signedness-mismatch.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lz4-fix-compression-decompression-signedness-mismatch.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lz4-fix-compression-decompression-signedness-mismatch.patch

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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: lz4: fix compression/decompression signedness mismatch

LZ4 compression and decompression functions require different in
signedness input/output parameters: unsigned char for compression and
signed char for decompression.

Change decompression API to require "(const) unsigned char *".

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 include/linux/lz4.h      |    8 ++++----
 lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c |    8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/linux/lz4.h~lz4-fix-compression-decompression-signedness-mismatch include/linux/lz4.h
--- a/include/linux/lz4.h~lz4-fix-compression-decompression-signedness-mismatch
+++ a/include/linux/lz4.h
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ int lz4hc_compress(const unsigned char *
  *	note :  Destination buffer must be already allocated.
  *		slightly faster than lz4_decompress_unknownoutputsize()
  */
-int lz4_decompress(const char *src, size_t *src_len, char *dest,
-		size_t actual_dest_len);
+int lz4_decompress(const unsigned char *src, size_t *src_len,
+		unsigned char *dest, size_t actual_dest_len);
 
 /*
  * lz4_decompress_unknownoutputsize()
@@ -82,6 +82,6 @@ int lz4_decompress(const char *src, size
  *		  Error if return (< 0)
  *	note :  Destination buffer must be already allocated.
  */
-int lz4_decompress_unknownoutputsize(const char *src, size_t src_len,
-		char *dest, size_t *dest_len);
+int lz4_decompress_unknownoutputsize(const unsigned char *src, size_t src_len,
+		unsigned char *dest, size_t *dest_len);
 #endif
diff -puN lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c~lz4-fix-compression-decompression-signedness-mismatch lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
--- a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c~lz4-fix-compression-decompression-signedness-mismatch
+++ a/lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
@@ -283,8 +283,8 @@ _output_error:
 	return (int) (-(((char *) ip) - source));
 }
 
-int lz4_decompress(const char *src, size_t *src_len, char *dest,
-		size_t actual_dest_len)
+int lz4_decompress(const unsigned char *src, size_t *src_len,
+		unsigned char *dest, size_t actual_dest_len)
 {
 	int ret = -1;
 	int input_len = 0;
@@ -302,8 +302,8 @@ exit_0:
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lz4_decompress);
 #endif
 
-int lz4_decompress_unknownoutputsize(const char *src, size_t src_len,
-		char *dest, size_t *dest_len)
+int lz4_decompress_unknownoutputsize(const unsigned char *src, size_t src_len,
+		unsigned char *dest, size_t *dest_len)
 {
 	int ret = -1;
 	int out_len = 0;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
lz4-fix-compression-decompression-signedness-mismatch.patch
linux-next.patch

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