[U-Boot] [PATCH] zlib: allow 0 as destination pointer

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear rhabarber1848,

In message <h4orm0$l1d$1 at ger.gmane.org> you wrote:
> 
> > Actually I'm waiting for a new patch that integrates that fix.
> 
> please do not commit the zlib-1.2.3 patch in its current state, although
> Alessandro's patch fixes on bug there is still the problem that the
> WATCHDOG_RESET() calls from gunzip.c
> 
> #if defined(CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG) || defined(CONFIG_WATCHDOG)
>         s.outcb = (cb_func)WATCHDOG_RESET;
> #else
>         s.outcb = Z_NULL;
> #endif<>/* CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG */
> 
> are silently ignored in the new zlib code. My C knowledge is insufficient to
> solve this problem. In its current state it will break zlib decompression
> on the machines I am taking care of.

Agreed - that should be working, too, before we pull that patch into
mainline.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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