Hmmm... seems to be another problem. I guess instead of "break" we need 
to throw a fatal error via progerr(), otherwise, a pointer is always 
returned and an infinite loop still occurs in looping functions that 
call uncompress1().

Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 02:12:53PM -0800, Patrick O'Lone wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>We use Swish-E over NFS and occasionally we get corrupt indexes. As a 
>>result, we've witnessed an error that can occur when the zlib compress 
>>fails AND you use -L option. Basically, in the uncompress1() function in 
>>compress.c, an infinite loop occurs because f_getc() is failing and not 
>>being handled. The fix is as follows:
> 
> 
> Two patches within a day of releasing 2.4.3.
> 
> Can you explain a bit more about this?  I assume it only shows up with
> -L because -L is reading properties (which are compressed with zlib).
> 
> It there another problem?  That is, is uncompress1 being called when
> it shouldn't be called?
> 
> 
> 
>>/* Uncompress a number from a file */
>>int     uncompress1(FILE * fp, int (*f_getc) (FILE *))
>>{
>>     int     _c;
>>     int     num = 0;
>>
>>     do
>>     {
>>         _c = (int) f_getc(fp);
>>	/* BEGIN FIX */
>>         if (_c < 0) {
>>             break;
>>         }
>>	/* END FIX */
> 
> 
> Are you checking for EOF there?  Should that be instead:
> 
>            if ( feof(fp) ) 
>                break;
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 

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