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
