tree 28486c04a70a504864e588d1b341dab1140558b9
parent fce1affe4e39b9ca8346bdbb5171e60ac303c355
author Dave Rodgman <dave.rodgman@arm.com> 1591922094 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1591924667 -0700

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>