diff --git a/libziparchive/include/ziparchive/zip_archive.h b/libziparchive/include/ziparchive/zip_archive.h
index dd463d1..018b1a9 100644
--- a/libziparchive/include/ziparchive/zip_archive.h
+++ b/libziparchive/include/ziparchive/zip_archive.h
@@ -265,6 +265,9 @@
  * Returns 0 on success and negative values on failure, for example if |reader|
  * cannot supply the right amount of data, or if the number of bytes written to
  * data does not match |uncompressed_length|.
+ *
+ * If |crc_out| is not nullptr, it is set to the crc32 checksum of the
+ * uncompressed data.
  */
 int32_t Inflate(const Reader& reader, const uint32_t compressed_length,
                 const uint32_t uncompressed_length, Writer* writer, uint64_t* crc_out);
diff --git a/libziparchive/zip_archive.cc b/libziparchive/zip_archive.cc
index 7535263..1298caf 100644
--- a/libziparchive/zip_archive.cc
+++ b/libziparchive/zip_archive.cc
@@ -924,6 +924,7 @@
 
   std::unique_ptr<z_stream, decltype(zstream_deleter)> zstream_guard(&zstream, zstream_deleter);
 
+  const bool compute_crc = (crc_out != nullptr);
   uint64_t crc = 0;
   uint32_t remaining_bytes = compressed_length;
   do {
@@ -955,9 +956,8 @@
     if (zstream.avail_out == 0 || (zerr == Z_STREAM_END && zstream.avail_out != kBufSize)) {
       const size_t write_size = zstream.next_out - &write_buf[0];
       if (!writer->Append(&write_buf[0], write_size)) {
-        // The file might have declared a bogus length.
-        return kInconsistentInformation;
-      } else {
+        return kIoError;
+      } else if (compute_crc) {
         crc = crc32(crc, &write_buf[0], write_size);
       }
 
@@ -974,7 +974,9 @@
   // it ourselves above because there are no additional gains to be made by
   // having zlib calculate it for us, since they do it by calling crc32 in
   // the same manner that we have above.
-  *crc_out = crc;
+  if (compute_crc) {
+    *crc_out = crc;
+  }
 
   if (zstream.total_out != uncompressed_length || remaining_bytes != 0) {
     ALOGW("Zip: size mismatch on inflated file (%lu vs %" PRIu32 ")", zstream.total_out,
diff --git a/libziparchive/zip_archive_test.cc b/libziparchive/zip_archive_test.cc
index 753bd44..374310b 100644
--- a/libziparchive/zip_archive_test.cc
+++ b/libziparchive/zip_archive_test.cc
@@ -766,6 +766,93 @@
   ASSERT_EQ(-1, OpenArchiveFd(tmp_file.fd, "LeadingNonZipBytes", &handle));
 }
 
+class VectorReader : public zip_archive::Reader {
+ public:
+  VectorReader(const std::vector<uint8_t>& input) : Reader(), input_(input) {}
+
+  bool ReadAtOffset(uint8_t* buf, size_t len, uint32_t offset) const {
+    if ((offset + len) < input_.size()) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    memcpy(buf, &input_[offset], len);
+    return true;
+  }
+
+ private:
+  const std::vector<uint8_t>& input_;
+};
+
+class VectorWriter : public zip_archive::Writer {
+ public:
+  VectorWriter() : Writer() {}
+
+  bool Append(uint8_t* buf, size_t size) {
+    output_.insert(output_.end(), buf, buf + size);
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  std::vector<uint8_t>& GetOutput() { return output_; }
+
+ private:
+  std::vector<uint8_t> output_;
+};
+
+class BadReader : public zip_archive::Reader {
+ public:
+  BadReader() : Reader() {}
+
+  bool ReadAtOffset(uint8_t*, size_t, uint32_t) const { return false; }
+};
+
+class BadWriter : public zip_archive::Writer {
+ public:
+  BadWriter() : Writer() {}
+
+  bool Append(uint8_t*, size_t) { return false; }
+};
+
+TEST(ziparchive, Inflate) {
+  const uint32_t compressed_length = kATxtContentsCompressed.size();
+  const uint32_t uncompressed_length = kATxtContents.size();
+
+  const VectorReader reader(kATxtContentsCompressed);
+  {
+    VectorWriter writer;
+    uint64_t crc_out = 0;
+
+    int32_t ret =
+        zip_archive::Inflate(reader, compressed_length, uncompressed_length, &writer, &crc_out);
+    ASSERT_EQ(0, ret);
+    ASSERT_EQ(kATxtContents, writer.GetOutput());
+    ASSERT_EQ(0x950821C5u, crc_out);
+  }
+
+  {
+    VectorWriter writer;
+    int32_t ret =
+        zip_archive::Inflate(reader, compressed_length, uncompressed_length, &writer, nullptr);
+    ASSERT_EQ(0, ret);
+    ASSERT_EQ(kATxtContents, writer.GetOutput());
+  }
+
+  {
+    BadWriter writer;
+    int32_t ret =
+        zip_archive::Inflate(reader, compressed_length, uncompressed_length, &writer, nullptr);
+    ASSERT_EQ(kIoError, ret);
+  }
+
+  {
+    BadReader reader;
+    VectorWriter writer;
+    int32_t ret =
+        zip_archive::Inflate(reader, compressed_length, uncompressed_length, &writer, nullptr);
+    ASSERT_EQ(kIoError, ret);
+    ASSERT_EQ(0u, writer.GetOutput().size());
+  }
+}
+
 int main(int argc, char** argv) {
   ::testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);