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authorDave Rodgman <dave.rodgman@arm.com>2020-06-11 17:34:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-11 18:17:47 -0700
commitb5265c813ce4efbfa2e46fd27cdf9a7f44a35d2e (patch)
tree28486c04a70a504864e588d1b341dab1140558b9 /Documentation
parentfce1affe4e39b9ca8346bdbb5171e60ac303c355 (diff)
downloadlinux-b5265c813ce4efbfa2e46fd27cdf9a7f44a35d2e.tar.bz2
lib/lzo: fix ambiguous encoding bug in lzo-rle
In some rare cases, for input data over 32 KB, lzo-rle could encode two different inputs to the same compressed representation, so that decompression is then ambiguous (i.e. data may be corrupted - although zram is not affected because it operates over 4 KB pages). This modifies the compressor without changing the decompressor or the bitstream format, such that: - there is no change to how data produced by the old compressor is decompressed - an old decompressor will correctly decode data from the updated compressor - performance and compression ratio are not affected - we avoid introducing a new bitstream format In testing over 12.8M real-world files totalling 903 GB, three files were affected by this bug. I also constructed 37M semi-random 64 KB files totalling 2.27 TB, and saw no affected files. Finally I tested over files constructed to contain each of the ~1024 possible bad input sequences; for all of these cases, updated lzo-rle worked correctly. There is no significant impact to performance or compression ratio. Signed-off-by: Dave Rodgman <dave.rodgman@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Dave Rodgman <dave.rodgman@arm.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Cc: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus@oberhumer.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200507100203.29785-1-dave.rodgman@arm.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/lzo.txt8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lzo.txt b/Documentation/lzo.txt
index ca983328976b..f65b51523014 100644
--- a/Documentation/lzo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/lzo.txt
@@ -159,11 +159,15 @@ Byte sequences
distance = 16384 + (H << 14) + D
state = S (copy S literals after this block)
End of stream is reached if distance == 16384
+ In version 1 only, to prevent ambiguity with the RLE case when
+ ((distance & 0x803f) == 0x803f) && (261 <= length <= 264), the
+ compressor must not emit block copies where distance and length
+ meet these conditions.
In version 1 only, this instruction is also used to encode a run of
- zeros if distance = 0xbfff, i.e. H = 1 and the D bits are all 1.
+ zeros if distance = 0xbfff, i.e. H = 1 and the D bits are all 1.
In this case, it is followed by a fourth byte, X.
- run length = ((X << 3) | (0 0 0 0 0 L L L)) + 4.
+ run length = ((X << 3) | (0 0 0 0 0 L L L)) + 4
0 0 1 L L L L L (32..63)
Copy of small block within 16kB distance (preferably less than 34B)