WWW Form Bug Report: "rare infinite loop in mod_cgi.c" on Solaris 2.x (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

Acked.

I think I saw something from Roy that looked similar to this.

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Message-Id: <19...@taz.hyperreal.com>
From: jef@acme.com
To: apache-bugs%apache.org@organic.com
Date: Fri Nov 22 17:27:52 1996
Subject: WWW Form Bug Report: "rare infinite loop in mod_cgi.c" on Solaris 2.x

Submitter: jef@acme.com
Operating system: Solaris 2.x, version: 
Version of Apache Used: 1.1.1
Extra Modules used: 
URL exhibiting problem: 

Symptoms:
--
If a CGI program doesn't read all of its
input, *and* there's enough input to fill the
various buffers, mod_cgi.c will go into an
infinite loop trying to read and discard the
rest of the input.

The fix is simple, just decrement "remaining"
like in the read-and-write part of the code.

*** mod_cgi.c   Mon Jun 17 13:43:47 1996
--- mod_cgi.c.fixed     Fri Nov 22 17:21:50 1996
***************
*** 323,328 ****
--- 323,329 ----
            
            len_read = read_client_block (r, argsbuffer, len_to_read);
            if (len_read == 0) break;
+           remaining -= len_read;
        }
      
        fflush (script_out);

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Backtrace:
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