From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module based on LZ4 v1.7.2. Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 12:25:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20170108112542.GC12798@kroah.com> References: <1482259992-16680-1-git-send-email-4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> <1483808145-18417-1-git-send-email-4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> <1483808145-18417-2-git-send-email-4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, bongkyu.kim@lge.com, rsalvaterra@gmail.com, sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, davem@davemloft.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, anton@enomsg.org, ccross@android.com, keescook@chromium.org, tony.luck@intel.com, phillip@squashfs.org.uk To: Sven Schmidt <4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1483808145-18417-2-git-send-email-4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 05:55:42PM +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote: > This patch updates LZ4 kernel module to LZ4 v1.7.2 by Yann Collet. > The kernel module is inspired by the previous work by Chanho Min. > The updated LZ4 module will not break existing code since there were alias > methods added to ensure backwards compatibility. Meta-comment. Does this update include all of the security fixes that we have made over the past few years to the lz4 code? I don't want to be adding back insecure functions that will cause us problems. Specifically look at the changes I made in 2014 in this directory for an example of what I am talking about here. thanks, greg k-h