[PATCH] erofs-utils: tar: handle gzread errors
Vansh Choudhary
ch at vnsh.in
Tue Mar 31 05:09:58 AEDT 2026
Treat gzread() errors as I/O failures before updating the stream
buffer state.
Without that, a negative gzread() result could underflow ios->tail
and leave the reader in a corrupted state.
Signed-off-by: Vansh Choudhary <ch at vnsh.in>
---
lib/tar.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/tar.c b/lib/tar.c
index 39e2321..871779a 100644
--- a/lib/tar.c
+++ b/lib/tar.c
@@ -174,6 +174,14 @@ int erofs_iostream_read(struct erofs_iostream *ios, void **buf, u64 bytes)
#if defined(HAVE_ZLIB)
ret = gzread(ios->handler, ios->buffer + rabytes,
ios->bufsize - rabytes);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ int errnum;
+ const char *errstr;
+
+ errstr = gzerror(ios->handler, &errnum);
+ erofs_err("failed to gzread: %s", errstr);
+ return -EIO;
+ }
if (!ret) {
int errnum;
const char *errstr;
--
2.43.0
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