Re: [PATCH 2/2] lib/xz: Fix XZ_DYNALLOC to avoid useless memory reallocations.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Nov 08 2019 - 15:50:23 EST


On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 12:27:54 -0800 Daniel Walker <danielwa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 12:00:40PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > From: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > s->dict.allocated was initialized to 0 but never set after
> > a successful allocation, thus the code always thought that
> > the dictionary buffer has to be reallocated.
> >
> > For the original commit to xz-embedded.git, please refer to:
> > https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz-embedded.git;a=commit;h=40d291b
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yu Sun <yusun2@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Yu made me aware that Lasse had sent this on Nov. 4. I would recommend you
> take that patch, and disregard this one. Cisco is using it and we would like
> to see it merged.

No probs. I'll take that as an acked-by ;)