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Revision c231c7db30faf93419fc22d680f74d816bea70e2 authored by Linus Torvalds on 17 August 2005, 20:07:28 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 17 August 2005, 20:07:28 UTC
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>

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Tip revision: d1221cea11fca0f6946bdd032a45b22cecfc0f99 authored by Linus Torvalds on 13 September 2022, 13:11:38 UTC
Merge tag 'pull-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Tip revision: d1221ce

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