On 5/23/07, Michael-Luke Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
On 23 May 2007, at 15:03, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>> Perhaps a rename is in order:
>> lzo1x_decompress() => lzo1x_decompress_unsafe()
>> lzo1x_decompress_safe => lzo1x_decompress()
>
> Or perhaps make reiserfs use _safe() instead - I think Richard has
> already submitted patch for same.
If someone's already made this mistake once, then it'll happen again.
In-kernel memory corruption is no fun.
Safe/Secure == Default
If I rename 'nonsafe' version as such then it will seem like its a
'broken' implementation which is not the case. If somebody is upto
including compression he must be having head to use the right
decompress version depending on this scenario :-)
- Nitin
Michael-Luke
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