From c82acc599ad3fd83518c9584b702e6ad942f7e31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshavardhana <harsha@minio.io>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:57:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Treat empty xl.json as file not found (#6804)

If the buffer is empty we can avoid parsing
it and treat it essentially as `xl.json`
is effectively missing.
---
 cmd/xl-v1-utils.go | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cmd/xl-v1-utils.go b/cmd/xl-v1-utils.go
index 83b8f3664..12efa4101 100644
--- a/cmd/xl-v1-utils.go
+++ b/cmd/xl-v1-utils.go
@@ -311,6 +311,9 @@ func readXLMeta(ctx context.Context, disk StorageAPI, bucket string, object stri
 		}
 		return xlMetaV1{}, err
 	}
+	if len(xlMetaBuf) == 0 {
+		return xlMetaV1{}, errFileNotFound
+	}
 	// obtain xlMetaV1{} using `github.com/tidwall/gjson`.
 	xlMeta, err = xlMetaV1UnmarshalJSON(ctx, xlMetaBuf)
 	if err != nil {