Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753314AbcDOIMb (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2016 04:12:31 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:33852 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750966AbcDOIM2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2016 04:12:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:12:23 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Kees Cook Cc: Yinghai Lu , Baoquan He , Ard Biesheuvel , Matt Redfearn , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Vivek Goyal , Andy Lutomirski , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, Andrew Morton , Dave Young , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/21] x86, boot: Calculate decompression size during boot not build Message-ID: <20160415081223.GF30715@gmail.com> References: <1460672954-32567-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <1460672954-32567-6-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1460672954-32567-6-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 404 Lines: 16 * Kees Cook wrote: > From: Yinghai Lu > > Currently z_extract_offset is calculated in boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c. What is the high level meaning of z_extract_offset? I cannot tell without reading the code - and the point of changelogs is for them to be readable without having to read the code. The rest of the changelog is pretty good. Thanks, Ingo