Re: Public repro case! Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a pack file

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

Ok, well, in this case I've been able to reproduce a zlib inflate
failure on the base object in a 2 deep delta chain.  We got back:

  #define Z_STREAM_ERROR (-2)

this causes the buffer to be freed and NULL to come back out of
unpack_compressed_entry(), and then everything is corrupt...

I bet you actually got an earlier error already from the inflateInit. 

The Z_STREAM_ERROR probably comes from inflate() itself - and could very 
easily be due to a allocation error in inflateInit leaving the stream data 
incomplete.

Let me try wrapping that dang thing and send a patch. 

		Linus