On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> * Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Yinghai Lu <ying...@kernel.org>
>>
>> Currently z_extract_offset is calculated in boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c.
>
> What is the high level meaning of z_extract_offset? I cannot tell without 
> reading
> the code - and the point of changelogs is for them to be readable without 
> having
> to read the code.

I'll clarify it in the changelog. (FWIW, it's the offset into the
extraction buffer where it's safe to put the data-to-be-extracted).

> The rest of the changelog is pretty good.

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security

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