Re: [PATCH] unlzo: Fix input buffer free

[Lasse Collin]

On 2011-11-17 Sascha Hauer wrote:
> unlzo modifies the pointer to in_buf, so we have to free the
> original buffer, not the modified pointer.

The fix looks good.

> This only happens when a fill function is passed, a case which is
> currently unused in the kernel.

It is used for initrd decompression (not initramfs) in
init/do_mounts_rd.c in crd_load(). The problematic code can only get
run when the initrd is corrupt and thus the system will panic anyway.

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