Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] zram: validate parameters in each backend's setup_params

From: Sergey Senozhatsky

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 03:33:07 EST


On (26/07/30 14:01), Haoqin Huang wrote:
[..]
> static int deflate_setup_params(struct zcomp_params *params)
> {
> + if (params->dict_sz) {
> + pr_err("deflate: dictionary is not supported\n");
> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> + }
> if (params->level == ZCOMP_PARAM_NOT_SET)
> params->level = Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION;
> + else if (params->level < Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION ||
> + params->level > Z_BEST_COMPRESSION) {
> + pr_err("deflate: invalid compression level %d\n", params->level);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> if (params->deflate.winbits == ZCOMP_PARAM_NOT_SET)
> params->deflate.winbits = DEFLATE_DEF_WINBITS;

This will conflict with winbits validation change that we landed
yesterday. Can I trouble you with a rebase request (either on top
of linux-next, when winbits patch hits it, or on top of Andrew's mm
tree)?

[..]
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/backend_lz4hc.c b/drivers/block/zram/backend_lz4hc.c
> index f6a336acfe20..5d551d165213 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/backend_lz4hc.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/backend_lz4hc.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ static int lz4hc_setup_params(struct zcomp_params *params)
> {
> if (params->level == ZCOMP_PARAM_NOT_SET)
> params->level = LZ4HC_DEFAULT_CLEVEL;
> + else if (params->level < LZ4HC_MIN_CLEVEL ||
> + params->level > LZ4HC_MAX_CLEVEL) {
> + pr_err("lz4hc: invalid compression level %d\n", params->level);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }

So... lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c supports levels 1 and 2. However,
LZ4HC_MIN_CLEVEL is set to 3, but clearly the compression library
supports levels lower than LZ4HC_MIN_CLEVEL. In fact, LZ4HC_MIN_CLEVEL
is never used in the lz4 code. Maybe here we need to just hardcode
"< 1" and put a comment:

} else if (params->level < 1 || params->level > LZ4HC_MAX_CLEVEL) {
/*
* Not LZ4HC_MIN_CLEVEL: that constant is advisory, and
* LZ4HC_compress_generic() only clamps levels below 1.
* Levels 1-2 are valid.
*/
pr_err("lz4hc: invalid compression level %d\n", params->level);
return -EINVAL;
}

[..]
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/backend_zstd.c b/drivers/block/zram/backend_zstd.c
> index 2584f47c9b3c..4d19d6089f13 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/backend_zstd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/backend_zstd.c
> @@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ static int zstd_setup_params(struct zcomp_params *params)
> params->drv_data = zp;
> if (params->level == ZCOMP_PARAM_NOT_SET)
> params->level = zstd_default_clevel();
> + else if (params->level < zstd_min_clevel() ||
> + params->level > zstd_max_clevel()) {
> + pr_err("zstd: invalid compression level %d\n", params->level);
> + goto error;

Should we also remove "zstd_release_params(params);" from here?
Same reason as with zstd_create().