diff --git a/src/app-layer-ssl.c b/src/app-layer-ssl.c
index 7993bf4cfe..96f7cff8bc 100644
--- a/src/app-layer-ssl.c
+++ b/src/app-layer-ssl.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Open Information Security Foundation
+/* Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Open Information Security Foundation
  *
  * You can copy, redistribute or modify this Program under the terms of
  * the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@
  * 02110-1301, USA.
  */
 
+/**
+ * \file
+ *
+ * \author Anoop Saldanha <poonaatsoc@gmail.com>
+ *
+ */
+
 #include "suricata-common.h"
 #include "debug.h"
 #include "decode.h"
@@ -86,6 +93,10 @@ static int SSLv3ParseHandshakeType(SSLState *ssl_state, uint8_t *input,
     uint8_t *initial_input = input;
     uint32_t parsed = 0;
 
+    if (input_len == 0) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
     switch (ssl_state->handshake_type) {
         case SSLV3_HS_CLIENT_HELLO:
             ssl_state->flags |= SSL_AL_FLAG_STATE_CLIENT_HELLO;
@@ -162,7 +173,10 @@ static int SSLv3ParseHandshakeProtocol(SSLState *ssl_state, uint8_t *input,
                                        uint32_t input_len)
 {
     uint8_t *initial_input = input;
-    int retval;
+
+    if (input_len == 0) {
+        return 0;
+    }
 
     switch (ssl_state->bytes_processed) {
         case 5:
@@ -198,7 +212,7 @@ static int SSLv3ParseHandshakeProtocol(SSLState *ssl_state, uint8_t *input,
     if (input_len == 0)
         return (input - initial_input);
 
-    retval = SSLv3ParseHandshakeType(ssl_state, input, input_len);
+    int retval = SSLv3ParseHandshakeType(ssl_state, input, input_len);
     if (retval == -1) {
         SCReturnInt(-1);
     } else {
@@ -212,6 +226,10 @@ static int SSLv3ParseRecord(uint8_t direction, SSLState *ssl_state,
 {
     uint8_t *initial_input = input;
 
+    if (input_len == 0) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
     switch (ssl_state->bytes_processed) {
         case 0:
             if (input_len >= 5) {
@@ -280,6 +298,10 @@ static int SSLv2ParseRecord(uint8_t direction, SSLState *ssl_state,
 {
     uint8_t *initial_input = input;
 
+    if (input_len == 0) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
     if (ssl_state->record_lengths_length == 2) {
         switch (ssl_state->bytes_processed) {
             case 0:
@@ -575,7 +597,6 @@ static int SSLv2Decode(uint8_t direction, SSLState *ssl_state,
         uint32_t diff = ssl_state->record_length +
             ssl_state->record_lengths_length + - ssl_state->bytes_processed;
         input += diff;
-        input_len -= diff;
         SSLParserReset(ssl_state);
         return (input - initial_input);
 
@@ -662,7 +683,6 @@ static int SSLv3Decode(uint8_t direction, SSLState *ssl_state,
         /* looks like we have another record */
         uint32_t diff = ssl_state->record_length + SSLV3_RECORD_LEN - ssl_state->bytes_processed;
         parsed += diff;
-        input_len -= diff;
         SSLParserReset(ssl_state);
         return parsed;
 
@@ -676,10 +696,6 @@ static int SSLv3Decode(uint8_t direction, SSLState *ssl_state,
 
 }
 
-int anoop_ssl_packet_count = 0;
-int anoop_inside_30_count = 0;
-int anoop_packet_count = 0;
-
 /**
  * \brief SSLv2, SSLv23, SSLv3, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2, TLSv1.3 parser.
  *
@@ -845,7 +861,7 @@ void RegisterSSLParsers(void)
     AppLayerRegisterStateFuncs(ALPROTO_TLS, SSLStateAlloc, SSLStateFree);
 
     /* Get the value of no reassembly option from the config file */
-    if(ConfGetBool("tls.no_reassemble", &tls.no_reassemble) != 1)
+    if (ConfGetBool("tls.no_reassemble", &tls.no_reassemble) != 1)
         tls.no_reassemble = 1;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/app-layer-ssl.h b/src/app-layer-ssl.h
index a09366b691..999841bd69 100644
--- a/src/app-layer-ssl.h
+++ b/src/app-layer-ssl.h
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@
  * 02110-1301, USA.
  */
 
+/**
+ * \file
+ *
+ * \author Anoop Saldanha <poonaatsoc@gmail.com>
+ *
+ */
+
 #ifndef __APP_LAYER_SSL_H__
 #define __APP_LAYER_SSL_H__