Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > What concerns me is that we are effectively using the same code as in > gunzip, as well as what the kernel uses. It is close enough a diff > between the version of inflate.c is quite small. So the bug might > not affect just us. > > Additionally one of the things on my todo list is to cleanup my > ELF self decompressor. And I started with the code in inflate.c. > > So while I really don't care about the non-ELF code path. I am > personally curious about why we have a bug. So I am going to complete > a code review and if I turn up something cool. If I don't oh well. > But I should have enough of an understanding of inflate.c to > stabalize it in other contexts. >
O.K. I don't know much about gzip. Do you have any idea why the bug can be cured by different compression level ?? If the bug is at as low level as stream interface evey compress level should be affected, am I right ?? Ollie
