Read-in the requested backup file line by line and directly deliver this as stream to the client.
This fixes the problem with very big backups on systems with very limited RAM, which resulted in an OOM kill of the CGI and delivery process.
Fixes #13096.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schantl stefan.schantl@ipfire.org --- html/cgi-bin/backup.cgi | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/html/cgi-bin/backup.cgi b/html/cgi-bin/backup.cgi index 1c01cb286..3888ccbff 100644 --- a/html/cgi-bin/backup.cgi +++ b/html/cgi-bin/backup.cgi @@ -366,6 +366,13 @@ sub deliver_file() {
# Deliver content open(FILE, "<$file") or die "Unable to open $file: $!"; - print <FILE>; + + # Read the file line by line and send it + # to the client. + while (<FILE>) { + print $_; + } + + # Close file handle. close(FILE); }