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2014-07-03lz4: add overrun checks to lz4_uncompress_unknownoutputsize()Greg Kroah-Hartman
Jan points out that I forgot to make the needed fixes to the lz4_uncompress_unknownoutputsize() function to mirror the changes done in lz4_decompress() with regards to potential pointer overflows. The only in-kernel user of this function is the zram code, which only takes data from a valid compressed buffer that it made itself, so it's not a big issue. But due to external kernel modules using this function, it's better to be safe here. Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> Cc: "Don A. Bailey" <donb@securitymouse.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-27lz4: fix another possible overrunGreg Kroah-Hartman
There is one other possible overrun in the lz4 code as implemented by Linux at this point in time (which differs from the upstream lz4 codebase, but will get synced at in a future kernel release.) As pointed out by Don, we also need to check the overflow in the data itself. While we are at it, replace the odd error return value with just a "simple" -1 value as the return value is never used for anything other than a basic "did this work or not" check. Reported-by: "Don A. Bailey" <donb@securitymouse.com> Reported-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-23lz4: ensure length does not wrapGreg Kroah-Hartman
Given some pathologically compressed data, lz4 could possibly decide to wrap a few internal variables, causing unknown things to happen. Catch this before the wrapping happens and abort the decompression. Reported-by: "Don A. Bailey" <donb@securitymouse.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-11lz4: fix compression/decompression signedness mismatchSergey Senozhatsky
LZ4 compression and decompression functions require different in signedness input/output parameters: unsigned char for compression and signed char for decompression. Change decompression API to require "(const) unsigned char *". Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-23lib/lz4: correct the LZ4 licenseRichard Laager
The LZ4 code is listed as using the "BSD 2-Clause License". Signed-off-by: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com> Acked-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com> Cc: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com> Cc: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ The 2-clause BSD can be just converted into GPL, but that's rude and pointless, so don't do it - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09lib: add lz4 compressor moduleChanho Min
This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compression and the crypto API using it. As shown below, the size of data is a little bit bigger but compressing speed is faster under the enabled unaligned memory access. We can use lz4 de/compression through crypto API as well. Also, It will be useful for another potential user of lz4 compression. lz4 Compression Benchmark: Compiler: ARM gcc 4.6.4 ARMv7, 1 GHz based board Kernel: linux 3.4 Uncompressed data Size: 101 MB Compressed Size compression Speed LZO 72.1MB 32.1MB/s, 33.0MB/s(UA) LZ4 75.1MB 30.4MB/s, 35.9MB/s(UA) LZ4HC 59.8MB 2.4MB/s, 2.5MB/s(UA) - UA: Unaligned memory Access support - Latest patch set for LZO applied This patch: Add support for LZ4 compression in the Linux Kernel. LZ4 Compression APIs for kernel are based on LZ4 implementation by Yann Collet and were changed for kernel coding style. LZ4 homepage : http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/lz4.html LZ4 source repository : http://code.google.com/p/lz4/ svn revision : r90 Two APIs are added: lz4_compress() support basic lz4 compression whereas lz4hc_compress() support high compression or CPU performance get lower but compression ratio get higher. Also, we require the pre-allocated working memory with the defined size and destination buffer must be allocated with the size of lz4_compressbound. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make lz4_compresshcctx() static] Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com> Cc: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au> Cc: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com> Cc: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernelKyungsik Lee
Add support for extracting LZ4-compressed kernel images, as well as LZ4-compressed ramdisk images in the kernel boot process. Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Cc: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09decompressor: add LZ4 decompressor moduleKyungsik Lee
Add support for LZ4 decompression in the Linux Kernel. LZ4 Decompression APIs for kernel are based on LZ4 implementation by Yann Collet. Benchmark Results(PATCH v3) Compiler: Linaro ARM gcc 4.6.2 1. ARMv7, 1.5GHz based board Kernel: linux 3.4 Uncompressed Kernel Size: 14MB Compressed Size Decompression Speed LZO 6.7MB 20.1MB/s, 25.2MB/s(UA) LZ4 7.3MB 29.1MB/s, 45.6MB/s(UA) 2. ARMv7, 1.7GHz based board Kernel: linux 3.7 Uncompressed Kernel Size: 14MB Compressed Size Decompression Speed LZO 6.0MB 34.1MB/s, 52.2MB/s(UA) LZ4 6.5MB 86.7MB/s - UA: Unaligned memory Access support - Latest patch set for LZO applied This patch set is for adding support for LZ4-compressed Kernel. LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm and it also features an extremely fast decoder [1]. But we have five of decompressors already and one question which does arise, however, is that of where do we stop adding new ones? This issue had been discussed and came to the conclusion [2]. Russell King said that we should have: - one decompressor which is the fastest - one decompressor for the highest compression ratio - one popular decompressor (eg conventional gzip) If we have a replacement one for one of these, then it should do exactly that: replace it. The benchmark shows that an 8% increase in image size vs a 66% increase in decompression speed compared to LZO(which has been known as the fastest decompressor in the Kernel). Therefore the "fast but may not be small" compression title has clearly been taken by LZ4 [3]. [1] http://code.google.com/p/lz4/ [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kbuild.devel/9157 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kbuild.devel/9347 LZ4 homepage: http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/lz4.html LZ4 source repository: http://code.google.com/p/lz4/ Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>