malloc failures in java/util/zip/Deflater (original) (raw)

Mario Torre neugens at limasoftware.net
Wed Jul 8 17:59:55 UTC 2009


Hi all,

I've found a problem in the Deflater code in OpenJDK, where a length of zero bytes is passed to malloc.

According to the specs, malloc may return either a valid pointer that can be passed to free, or NULL, while generally NULL is considered to be a failure. Linux and Solaris, albeit non specifying it, return always a valid pointer, as far as I know, but I have a weird OS here that does indeed return NULL.

I've fixed this issue locally, and thought I could share the patch with you:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neugens/deflater/webrev.00/

Cheers, Mario



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