linux/lib
Alexandre Courbot 1431574a1c lib/decompressors: fix "no limit" output buffer length
When decompressing into memory, the output buffer length is set to some
arbitrarily high value (0x7fffffff) to indicate the output is, virtually,
unlimited in size.

The problem with this is that some platforms have their physical memory at
high physical addresses (0x80000000 or more), and that the output buffer
address and its "unlimited" length cannot be added without overflowing.
An example of this can be found in inflate_fast():

/* next_out is the output buffer address */
out = strm->next_out - OFF;
/* avail_out is the output buffer size. end will overflow if the output
 * address is >= 0x80000104 */
end = out + (strm->avail_out - 257);

This has huge consequences on the performance of kernel decompression,
since the following exit condition of inflate_fast() will be always true:

} while (in < last && out < end);

Indeed, "end" has overflowed and is now always lower than "out".  As a
result, inflate_fast() will return after processing one single byte of
input data, and will thus need to be called an unreasonably high number of
times.  This probably went unnoticed because kernel decompression is fast
enough even with this issue.

Nonetheless, adjusting the output buffer length in such a way that the
above pointer arithmetic never overflows results in a kernel decompression
that is about 3 times faster on affected machines.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:58:38 -07:00
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fonts lib: Move fonts from drivers/video/console/ to lib/fonts/ 2013-06-28 10:28:22 +02:00
lz4 lib/lz4: correct the LZ4 license 2013-08-23 09:51:22 -07:00
lzo
mpi alpha: Modernize lib/mpi/longlong.h 2013-07-19 13:54:23 -07:00
raid6 md update for v3.12 2013-09-10 13:03:41 -07:00
reed_solomon
xz
zlib_deflate
zlib_inflate
.gitignore
argv_split.c
asn1_decoder.c
atomic64_test.c
atomic64.c
audit.c
average.c
bcd.c
bch.c
bitmap.c
bitrev.c
bsearch.c
btree.c
bug.c
build_OID_registry X.509: do not emit any informational output 2013-06-19 17:54:06 +02:00
bust_spinlocks.c
check_signature.c
checksum.c
clz_ctz.c lib: add weak clz/ctz functions 2013-07-09 10:33:30 -07:00
clz_tab.c
cmdline.c
cordic.c
cpu_rmap.c
cpu-notifier-error-inject.c
cpumask.c
crc7.c
crc8.c
crc16.c
crc32.c lib/crc32: update the comments of crc32_{be,le}_generic() 2013-09-11 15:58:38 -07:00
crc32defs.h
crc-ccitt.c
crc-itu-t.c
crc-t10dif.c Reinstate "crypto: crct10dif - Wrap crc_t10dif function all to use crypto transform framework" 2013-09-07 12:56:26 +10:00
ctype.c
debug_locks.c mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks 2013-06-26 12:10:56 +02:00
debugobjects.c debugobjects: Make debug_object_activate() return status 2013-08-18 17:39:55 -07:00
dec_and_lock.c
decompress_bunzip2.c
decompress_inflate.c lib/decompressors: fix "no limit" output buffer length 2013-09-11 15:58:38 -07:00
decompress_unlz4.c lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel 2013-07-09 10:33:30 -07:00
decompress_unlzma.c
decompress_unlzo.c
decompress_unxz.c
decompress.c lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel 2013-07-09 10:33:30 -07:00
devres.c
digsig.c
div64.c math64: New separate div64_u64_rem helper 2013-08-23 09:02:14 -04:00
dma-debug.c
dump_stack.c x86, asmlinkage: Make dump_stack visible 2013-08-06 14:21:01 -07:00
dynamic_debug.c dynamic debug: line queries failing due to uninitialized local variable 2013-08-28 12:10:53 -07:00
dynamic_queue_limits.c
earlycpio.c earlycpio.c: Fix the confusing comment of find_cpio_data(). 2013-08-14 23:24:01 +02:00
extable.c
fault-inject.c debugfs: add get/set for atomic types 2013-06-03 13:55:01 -07:00
fdt_ro.c
fdt_rw.c
fdt_strerror.c
fdt_sw.c
fdt_wip.c
fdt.c
find_last_bit.c
find_next_bit.c
flex_array.c
flex_proportions.c
gcd.c
gen_crc32table.c
genalloc.c lib/genalloc.c: correct dev_get_gen_pool documentation 2013-09-11 15:58:38 -07:00
halfmd4.c
hexdump.c
hweight.c
idr.c idr: print a stack dump after ida_remove warning 2013-07-03 16:08:04 -07:00
inflate.c
int_sqrt.c
interval_tree_test_main.c
interval_tree.c
iomap_copy.c
iomap.c
iommu-helper.c
ioremap.c
iovec.c
irq_regs.c
is_single_threaded.c
jedec_ddr_data.c
kasprintf.c
Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2013-09-07 14:31:18 -07:00
Kconfig.debug ARC changes for 3.12 2013-09-09 09:05:33 -07:00
Kconfig.kgdb treewide: Fix typo in printk 2013-06-18 13:48:45 +02:00
Kconfig.kmemcheck
kfifo.c
klist.c
kobject_uevent.c
kobject.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2013-09-07 14:35:32 -07:00
kstrtox.c
kstrtox.h
lcm.c
libcrc32c.c
list_debug.c
list_sort.c
llist.c llist: fix/simplify llist_add() and llist_add_batch() 2013-07-13 13:29:24 +04:00
locking-selftest-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-mutex.h
locking-selftest-rlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock.h
locking-selftest-rsem.h
locking-selftest-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin.h
locking-selftest-wlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock.h
locking-selftest-wsem.h
locking-selftest.c mutex: Move ww_mutex definitions to ww_mutex.h 2013-07-12 12:07:46 +02:00
lockref.c lockref: add ability to mark lockrefs "dead" 2013-09-07 15:49:18 -07:00
lru_cache.c
Makefile lockref: uninline lockref helper functions 2013-09-02 11:58:20 -07:00
md5.c
memory-notifier-error-inject.c
memweight.c
net_utils.c net: core: move mac_pton() to lib/net_utils.c 2013-06-05 12:00:27 -07:00
nlattr.c
notifier-error-inject.c
notifier-error-inject.h
of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.c
oid_registry.c
parser.c
pci_iomap.c
percpu_counter.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
percpu-refcount.c percpu-refcount: use RCU-sched insted of normal RCU 2013-06-16 16:12:26 -07:00
percpu-rwsem.c
plist.c
pm-notifier-error-inject.c
prio_heap.c
proportions.c
radix-tree.c
random32.c
ratelimit.c
rational.c
rbtree_test.c
rbtree.c
reciprocal_div.c
rwsem-spinlock.c
rwsem.c
scatterlist.c lib/scatterlist: error handling in __sg_alloc_table() 2013-07-09 10:33:31 -07:00
sha1.c
show_mem.c
smp_processor_id.c
sort.c
spinlock_debug.c
stmp_device.c
string_helpers.c
string.c
strncpy_from_user.c
strnlen_user.c
swiotlb.c swiotlb: replace dma_length with sg_dma_len() macro 2013-08-09 11:28:42 -04:00
syscall.c
test-kstrtox.c
test-string_helpers.c
textsearch.c
timerqueue.c
ts_bm.c
ts_fsm.c
ts_kmp.c
ucs2_string.c
usercopy.c
uuid.c
vsprintf.c add formats for dentry/file pathnames 2013-09-04 00:13:11 -04:00