Core: skip special buffers on writing (ticket #981). A special last buffer with cl->buf->pos set to NULL can be present in a chain when writing request body if chunked encoding was used. This resulted in a NULL pointer dereference if it happened to be the only buffer left after a do...while loop iteration in ngx_write_chain_to_file(). The problem originally appeared in nginx 1.3.9 with chunked encoding support. Additionally, rev. 3832b608dc8d (nginx 1.9.13) changed the minimum number of buffers to trigger this from IOV_MAX (typically 1024) to NGX_IOVS_PREALLOCATE (typically 64). Fix is to skip such buffers in ngx_chain_to_iovec(), much like it is done in other places.

# Copyright (C) Igor Sysoev
# Copyright (C) Nginx, Inc.


ngx_include="unistd.h";      . auto/include
ngx_include="inttypes.h";    . auto/include
ngx_include="limits.h";      . auto/include
ngx_include="sys/filio.h";   . auto/include
ngx_include="sys/param.h";   . auto/include
ngx_include="sys/mount.h";   . auto/include
ngx_include="sys/statvfs.h"; . auto/include
ngx_include="crypt.h";       . auto/include