1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/private/NSData+GRPC.m b/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/private/NSData+GRPC.m
index 1238374af3..98337799e9 100644
--- a/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/private/NSData+GRPC.m
+++ b/src/objective-c/GRPCClient/private/NSData+GRPC.m
@@ -42,7 +42,15 @@
 static void MallocAndCopyByteBufferToCharArray(grpc_byte_buffer *buffer,
                                                size_t *length, char **array) {
   grpc_byte_buffer_reader reader;
-  grpc_byte_buffer_reader_init(&reader, buffer);
+  if (!grpc_byte_buffer_reader_init(&reader, buffer)) {
+    // grpc_byte_buffer_reader_init can fail if the data sent by the server
+    // could not be decompressed for any reason. This is an issue with the data
+    // coming from the server and thus we want the RPC to fail with error code
+    // INTERNAL.
+    *array = NULL;
+    *length = 0;
+    return;
+  }
   // The slice contains uncompressed data even if compressed data was received
   // because the reader takes care of automatically decompressing it
   gpr_slice slice = grpc_byte_buffer_reader_readall(&reader);