/* read-file.c -- read file contents into a string Copyright (C) 2006, 2009-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Simon Josefsson and Bruno Haible. This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include #include "read-file.h" /* Get fstat. */ #include /* Get ftello. */ #include /* Get PTRDIFF_MAX. */ #include /* Get malloc, realloc, free. */ #include /* Get memcpy, memset_explicit. */ #include /* Get errno. */ #include /* Read a STREAM and return a newly allocated string with the content, and set *LENGTH to the length of the string. The string is zero-terminated, but the terminating zero byte is not counted in *LENGTH. On errors, *LENGTH is undefined, errno preserves the values set by system functions (if any), and NULL is returned. If the RF_SENSITIVE flag is set in FLAGS: - You should control the buffering of STREAM using 'setvbuf'. Either clear the buffer of STREAM after closing it, or disable buffering of STREAM before calling this function. - The memory buffer internally allocated will be cleared upon failure. */ char * fread_file (FILE *stream, int flags, size_t *length) { char *buf = NULL; size_t alloc = BUFSIZ; /* For a regular file, allocate a buffer that has exactly the right size. This avoids the need to do dynamic reallocations later. */ { struct stat st; if (fstat (fileno (stream), &st) >= 0 && S_ISREG (st.st_mode)) { off_t pos = ftello (stream); if (pos >= 0 && pos < st.st_size) { off_t alloc_off = st.st_size - pos; /* '1' below, accounts for the trailing NUL. */ if (PTRDIFF_MAX - 1 < alloc_off) { errno = ENOMEM; return NULL; } alloc = alloc_off + 1; } } } if (!(buf = malloc (alloc))) return NULL; /* errno is ENOMEM. */ { size_t size = 0; /* number of bytes read so far */ int save_errno; for (;;) { /* This reads 1 more than the size of a regular file so that we get eof immediately. */ size_t requested = alloc - size; size_t count = fread (buf + size, 1, requested, stream); size += count; if (count != requested) { save_errno = errno; if (ferror (stream)) break; /* Shrink the allocated memory if possible. */ if (size < alloc - 1) { if (flags & RF_SENSITIVE) { char *smaller_buf = malloc (size + 1); if (smaller_buf == NULL) memset_explicit (buf + size, 0, alloc - size); else { memcpy (smaller_buf, buf, size); memset_explicit (buf, 0, alloc); free (buf); buf = smaller_buf; } } else { char *smaller_buf = realloc (buf, size + 1); if (smaller_buf != NULL) buf = smaller_buf; } } buf[size] = '\0'; *length = size; return buf; } { char *new_buf; size_t save_alloc = alloc; if (alloc == PTRDIFF_MAX) { save_errno = ENOMEM; break; } if (alloc < PTRDIFF_MAX - alloc / 2) alloc = alloc + alloc / 2; else alloc = PTRDIFF_MAX; if (flags & RF_SENSITIVE) { new_buf = malloc (alloc); if (!new_buf) { /* BUF should be cleared below after the loop. */ save_errno = errno; break; } memcpy (new_buf, buf, save_alloc); memset_explicit (buf, 0, save_alloc); free (buf); } else if (!(new_buf = realloc (buf, alloc))) { save_errno = errno; break; } buf = new_buf; } } if (flags & RF_SENSITIVE) memset_explicit (buf, 0, alloc); free (buf); errno = save_errno; return NULL; } } /* Open and read the contents of FILENAME, and return a newly allocated string with the content, and set *LENGTH to the length of the string. The string is zero-terminated, but the terminating zero byte is not counted in *LENGTH. On errors, *LENGTH is undefined, errno preserves the values set by system functions (if any), and NULL is returned. If the RF_BINARY flag is set in FLAGS, the file is opened in binary mode. If the RF_SENSITIVE flag is set in FLAGS, the memory buffer internally allocated will be cleared upon failure. */ char * read_file (const char *filename, int flags, size_t *length) { const char *mode = (flags & RF_BINARY) ? "rbe" : "re"; FILE *stream = fopen (filename, mode); char *out; if (!stream) return NULL; if (flags & RF_SENSITIVE) setvbuf (stream, NULL, _IONBF, 0); out = fread_file (stream, flags, length); if (fclose (stream) != 0) { if (out) { if (flags & RF_SENSITIVE) memset_explicit (out, 0, *length); free (out); } return NULL; } return out; }