pgsql: Fix ancient violation of zlib's API spec. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Fix ancient violation of zlib's API spec.
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Msg-id E1jyidg-0005Lk-Qm@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix ancient violation of zlib's API spec.

contrib/pgcrypto mishandled the case where deflate() does not consume
all of the offered input on the first try.  It reset the next_in pointer
to the start of the input instead of leaving it alone, causing the wrong
data to be fed to the next deflate() call.

This has been broken since pgcrypto was committed.  The reason for the
lack of complaints seems to be that it's fairly hard to get stock zlib
to not consume all the input, so long as the output buffer is big enough
(which it normally would be in pgcrypto's usage; AFAICT the input is
always going to be packetized into packets no larger than ZIP_OUT_BUF).
However, IBM's zlibNX implementation for AIX evidently will do it
in some cases.

I did not add a test case for this, because I couldn't find one that
would fail with stock zlib.  When we put back the test case for
bug #16476, that will cover the zlibNX situation well enough.

While here, write deflate()'s second argument as Z_NO_FLUSH per its
API spec, instead of hard-wiring the value zero.

Per buildfarm results and subsequent investigation.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16476-692ef7b84e5fb893@postgresql.org

Branch
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REL_10_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d8ec3b1263d209df869142cb2e489c639e04aa7a

Modified Files
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contrib/pgcrypto/pgp-compress.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


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