[Mono-bugs] [Bug 531890] New: Object serialization fails when using GZipStream

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           Summary: Object serialization fails when using GZipStream
    Classification: Mono
           Product: Mono: Class Libraries
           Version: SVN
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Ubuntu
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: CORLIB
        AssignedTo: mono-bugs at lists.ximian.com
        ReportedBy: greg.smolyn at strangeloopnetworks.com
         QAContact: mono-bugs at lists.ximian.com
          Found By: ---


Created an attachment (id=313367)
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Reproduction code for gzip serialization bug

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2)
Gecko/20090803 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5.2

In certain circumstances, using the GZipStream and the BinaryFormatter together
results in the following exception when decompressing + deserializing.


Unhandled Exception: System.IO.EndOfStreamException: Failed to read past end of
stream.
  at System.IO.BinaryReader.ReadByte () [0x00047] in
/home/strangeloop/src/mono-136007/mcs/class/corlib/System.IO/BinaryReader.cs:293 
  at
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.ReadBinaryHeader
(System.IO.BinaryReader reader, System.Boolean& hasHeaders) [0x00000] in
/home/strangeloop/src/mono-136007/mcs/class/corlib/System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary/BinaryFormatter.cs:265 
  at
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.NoCheckDeserialize
(System.IO.Stream serializationStream,
System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.HeaderHandler handler) [0x00039] in
/home/strangeloop/src/mono-136007/mcs/class/corlib/System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary/BinaryFormatter.cs:159 
  at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Deserialize
(System.IO.Stream serializationStream) [0x00000] in
/home/strangeloop/src/mono-136007/mcs/class/corlib/System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary/BinaryFormatter.cs:134 
  at TestSerialization.MainClass.Main (System.String[] args) [0x0005f] in
/home/strangeloop/src/TestSerialization/Main.cs:30 


This does _not_ normally happen when simply writing from a BinaryFormatter to a
GZipStream, but when using an intermediate stream-copy step.

In the error case, the BinaryFormatted data is sent to a memory stream, which
is then copied (with a custom binary copy function) to a GZipStream.  
In MS.NET this works fine, however in Mono this fails.  Turns out in this
instance the binary copy was extraneous, so there is an easy workaround for us.
 However someone else might run into this in the future.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  using a BinaryFormatter, serialize to a memory stream
2. Copy the memory stream to a GZipStream set to compress
3. Decompress and deserialize from the GZipStream
(please see attached solution for reproduction code and the BinaryCopy method
used)
Actual Results:  
The exception mentioned above, although in some builds (136007), occasionally
data corruption could be seen and no exception would show up.

Expected Results:  
Class should have been properly deserialized.

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