Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 3

From: Nitin Gupta
Date: Wed May 23 2007 - 10:03:48 EST


On 5/23/07, Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Fair enough. However, this rather important issue is pretty much
undocumented (source code comments don't count)

If header file for public interface (<linux/lzo1x.h> documents about
'unsafe' vs. 'safe' then it should be enough.

and Reiser4 is
already using the lzo1x_decompress() function rather than the
seemingly more appropriate lzo1x_decompress_safe() function...

http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-
rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/broken-out/reiser4-use-lzo-library-functions.patch

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.

- Nitin
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