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Linus Torvalds authored
It turns out that empty distance code tables are not an error, and that
a compressed block with only literals can validly have an empty table
and should not be flagged as a data error.

Some old versions of gzip had problems with this case, but it does not
affect the zlib code in the kernel.

Analysis and explanations thanks to Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>

Cc: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gentoo.org>
Cc: Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
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