On Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:02:28 Mark Adler wrote:
> On May 30, 2007, at 6:30 AM, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > [1] For your reference, here is the user code in question:
>
> ...
>
> > if (srclen > 2 && !(data_in[1] & PRESET_DICT) &&
> > ((data_in[0] & 0x0f) == Z_DEFLATED) &&
> > !(((data_in[0]<<8) + data_in[1]) % 31)) {
>
> The funny thing here is that the author felt compelled to use a
> #defined constant for the dictionary bit (PRESET_DICT), but had no
> problem with a numeric constant to isolate the compression method
> (0x0f), or for that matter extracting the window bits from the
> header. The easy way to avoid the use of an internal zlib header
> file here is to simply replace PRESET_DICT with 0x20. That constant
> will never change -- it is part of the definition of the zlib header
> in RFC 1950.
That was one of my original suggestions, though I personally downchecked it
(and believe I also did so in the mail with the suggestions) because of the
dislike of "Magic Numbers" in the kernel. However, I had only looked at a
small part of the JFFS2 code to see what it used zutil.h for - if it is using
said 'Magic Numbers' in the rest of the code, the consistent way to fix this
would be to replace the PRESET_DICT macro with the constant it stands for.
I've gotten a bit caught-up in extending the test-bed code I used to benchmark
Nitin's 'tinyLZO' implementation, but I will see about getting a patch
together to change JFFS2 in the manner Mark suggests. (Unless, of course,
someone gets to it before I do).
DRH
>
> The slightly more involved patch to avoid the problem is to let
> inflate() do all that work for you, including the integrity check on
> the zlib header (% 31). Also this corrects an error in the original
> code, which is that it continues to try to decompress after finding
> that a dictionary is needed or that the zlib header is invalid. In
> this version, a bad header simply returns an error:
>
> /* provide input data and output space */
> inf_strm.next_in = data_in;
> inf_strm.avail_in = srclen;
> inf_strm.next_out = cpage_out;
> inf_strm.avail_out = destlen;
>
> /* verify and skip zlib header (this updates next_in and
> avail_in) */
> inf_strm.zalloc = Z_NULL;
> inf_strm.zfree = Z_NULL;
> inf_strm.opaque = Z_NULL;
> if (zlib_inflateInit(&inf_strm) != Z_OK) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING "inflateInit failed\n");
> return 1;
> }
> ret = zlib_inflate(&inf_strm, Z_BLOCK);
> if (ret != Z_OK || (inf_strm.data_type & 0x80) == 0) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING "inflate failed on zlib header\n");
> return 1;
> }
> zlib_inflateEnd(&inf_strm);
>
> /* do raw inflate (no adler32) on deflate data after zlib header */
> inf_strm.zalloc = Z_NULL;
> inf_strm.zfree = Z_NULL;
> inf_strm.opaque = Z_NULL;
> if (zlib_inflateInit2(&inf_strm, -MAX_WBITS) != Z_OK) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING "inflateInit failed\n");
> return 1;
> }
> while ((ret = zlib_inflate ...
>
> Mark
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