Re: [RFC] LZO1X de/compression support

["Nitin Gupta" <nitingupta910@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 5/18/07, Richard Purdie <richard@openedhand.com> wrote:
> > This patch, as of yet, only gives 'non-safe' version of decompressor.
> > The 'safe' version  will be included soon.
>
> How are you planning to add that back?

Please see newer patch posted.

> The LZO author had some concerns about this code. The major issue he
> highlighted was that it was 64-bit unsafe. Have you addressed that
> problem?
I found certain parts which were 64-bit unsafe - corrected them. Now,
I couldn't see any more of such instances and posted as RFC :)

>  Has it been tested on 64bit?
No. I am still looking for some 64-bit machine to test on (also some
Big-endian machine).

> I'm worried that in converting this code the way you have, you've
> possibly introduced potential security holes. You've removed all bounds
> checking and are going to have to add that back to create the "safe"
> version of the decompression function. Until I mentioned it, you seemed
> unaware of the potential problem and the comments above suggest you
> don't understand this code as fully as I'd like with regard to
> overflows.

I just did the 'logical' porting work. I don't understand the
algorithm itself since I could not find any document that describes
the same.

> The version I submitted has at least been subject to userspace scrutiny
> over a period of time and is basically unchanged with regard to
> security. It is much uglier though.
>
> Richard

Yes. But it will be even better if we can verify/correct this
cleaned-up version - shouldn't be that hard for just ~500 LOC :-)


Thanks for your comments.

- Nitin
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