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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-04-22 22:32:02 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-04-22 22:32:02 +0000
commitc95814c04d6a0436e5c4c88d2e1d57c7e0c91060 (patch)
tree95ed700f9ef7460dbc50ae234f0978480994d8cb /lib/content_encoding.c
parent9f8123f1b8125022af4513e698438ffa0ddfa1af (diff)
Dan Fandrich's gzip bugfix
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/content_encoding.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/content_encoding.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/content_encoding.c b/lib/content_encoding.c
index 9705c009c..92152cdf7 100644
--- a/lib/content_encoding.c
+++ b/lib/content_encoding.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
#include <curl/types.h>
#include "sendf.h"
-#define DSIZ 4096 /* buffer size for decompressed data */
+#define DSIZ 0x10000 /* buffer size for decompressed data */
#define GZIP_MAGIC_0 0x1f
#define GZIP_MAGIC_1 0x8b
@@ -248,7 +248,12 @@ Curl_unencode_gzip_write(struct SessionHandle *data,
break;
case GZIP_UNDERFLOW:
- /* We need more data so we can find the end of the gzip header */
+ /* We need more data so we can find the end of the gzip header.
+ It's possible that the memory block we malloc here will never be
+ freed if the transfer abruptly aborts after this point. Since it's
+ unlikely that circumstances will be right for this code path to be
+ followed in the first place, and it's even more unlikely for a transfer
+ to fail immediately afterwards, it should seldom be a problem. */
z->avail_in = nread;
z->next_in = malloc(z->avail_in);
if (z->next_in == NULL) {