[PATCH 1/5] Add generic 'strbuf_readlink()' helper function

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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 11:42 am

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:36:40 -0800

It was already what 'git apply' did in read_old_data(), just export it
as a real function, and make it be more generic.

In particular, this handles the case of the lstat() st_size data not
matching the readlink() return value properly (which apparently happens
at least on NTFS under Linux).  But as a result of this you could also
use the new function without even knowing how big the link is going to
be, and it will allocate an appropriately sized buffer.

So we pass in the st_size of the link as just a hint, rather than a
fixed requirement.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 builtin-apply.c |    6 ++----
 strbuf.c        |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 strbuf.h        |    1 +
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index 4c4d1e1..07244b0 100644
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -1559,10 +1559,8 @@ static int read_old_data(struct stat *st, const char *path, struct strbuf *buf)
 {
 	switch (st->st_mode & S_IFMT) {
 	case S_IFLNK:
-		strbuf_grow(buf, st->st_size);
-		if (readlink(path, buf->buf, st->st_size) != st->st_size)
-			return -1;
-		strbuf_setlen(buf, st->st_size);
+		if (strbuf_readlink(buf, path, st->st_size) < 0)
+			return error("unable to read symlink %s", path);
 		return 0;
 	case S_IFREG:
 		if (strbuf_read_file(buf, path, st->st_size) != st->st_size)
diff --git a/strbuf.c b/strbuf.c
index 13be67e..904a2b0 100644
--- a/strbuf.c
+++ b/strbuf.c
@@ -288,6 +288,34 @@ ssize_t strbuf_read(struct strbuf *sb, int fd, size_t hint)
 	return sb->len - oldlen;
 }
 
+#define STRBUF_MAXLINK (2*PATH_MAX)
+
+int strbuf_readlink(struct strbuf *sb, const char *path, size_t hint)
+{
+	if (hint < 32)
+		hint = 32;
+
+	while (hint < STRBUF_MAXLINK) {
+		int len;
+
+		strbuf_grow(sb, hint);
+		len = readlink(path, sb->buf, hint);
+		if (len < 0) {
+			if (errno != ERANGE)
+				break;
+		} else if (len < hint) {
+			strbuf_setlen(sb, len);
+			return 0;
+		}
+
+		/* .. the buffer was too small - try again */
+		hint *= 2;
+		continue;
+	}
+	strbuf_release(sb);
+	return -1;
+}
+
 int strbuf_getline(struct strbuf *sb, FILE *fp, int term)
 {
 	int ch;
diff --git a/strbuf.h b/strbuf.h
index b1670d9..89bd36e 100644
--- a/strbuf.h
+++ b/strbuf.h
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ extern size_t strbuf_fread(struct strbuf *, size_t, FILE *);
 /* XXX: if read fails, any partial read is undone */
 extern ssize_t strbuf_read(struct strbuf *, int fd, size_t hint);
 extern int strbuf_read_file(struct strbuf *sb, const char *path, size_t hint);
+extern int strbuf_readlink(struct strbuf *sb, const char *path, size_t hint);
 
 extern int strbuf_getline(struct strbuf *, FILE *, int);
 
-- 
1.6.1.rc3.3.gcc3e3

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[PATCH 0/5] Be careful about lstat()-vs-readlink(), Linus Torvalds, (Wed Dec 17, 11:42 am)
[PATCH 1/5] Add generic 'strbuf_readlink()' helper function, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Dec 17, 11:42 am)
[PATCH 3/5] Make 'index_path()' use 'strbuf_readlink()', Linus Torvalds, (Wed Dec 17, 11:43 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Make 'diff_populate_filespec()' use the ne ..., Olivier Galibert, (Thu Dec 18, 10:56 am)
[PATCH] diff.c: fix pointer type warning, René Scharfe, (Fri Dec 19, 3:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH] diff.c: fix pointer type warning, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Dec 19, 4:09 pm)
[PATCH] strbuf_readlink semantics update., Pierre Habouzit, (Tue Dec 23, 3:05 am)
Re: [PATCH] strbuf_readlink semantics update., Pierre Habouzit, (Tue Dec 23, 3:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] strbuf_readlink semantics update., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Dec 23, 11:16 am)
Re: [PATCH] strbuf_readlink semantics update., Pierre Habouzit, (Wed Dec 24, 3:11 am)
Re: [PATCH] strbuf_readlink semantics update., René Scharfe, (Wed Dec 24, 8:20 am)
Re: [PATCH] strbuf_readlink semantics update., Junio C Hamano, (Thu Dec 25, 12:23 am)
Re: [PATCH] strbuf_readlink semantics update., Pierre Habouzit, (Sun Jan 4, 5:21 am)