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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2019-07-22 13:49:17 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2019-07-25 17:10:51 +0200
commit5373172e80e90c7a108693a83f2586d18e9c99b5 (patch)
treec8122628b4bb5ecc1fd556918ede3bafab329149 /src/basic/xattr-util.c
parent63d59b8dcf4a911703e5188bc14c39b5eea0d050 (diff)
downloadsystemd-5373172e80e90c7a108693a83f2586d18e9c99b5.tar.gz
xattr-util: document that we NUL suffix
Diffstat (limited to 'src/basic/xattr-util.c')
-rw-r--r--src/basic/xattr-util.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/xattr-util.c b/src/basic/xattr-util.c
index 1d045f911b..ab321e0293 100644
--- a/src/basic/xattr-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/xattr-util.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ int getxattr_malloc(const char *path, const char *name, char **value, bool allow
assert(name);
assert(value);
- for (l = 100; ; l = (size_t) n + 1) {
+ for (l = 100; ; l = (size_t) n + 1 /* extra byte to make sure this remains NUL suffixed */) {
v = new0(char, l);
if (!v)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ int getxattr_malloc(const char *path, const char *name, char **value, bool allow
n = lgetxattr(path, name, v, l);
else
n = getxattr(path, name, v, l);
-
if (n >= 0 && (size_t) n < l) {
*value = v;
return n;
@@ -65,13 +64,12 @@ int fgetxattr_malloc(int fd, const char *name, char **value) {
assert(name);
assert(value);
- for (l = 100; ; l = (size_t) n + 1) {
+ for (l = 100;; l = (size_t) n + 1 /* extra byte to make sure this remains NUL suffixed */) {
v = new0(char, l);
if (!v)
return -ENOMEM;
n = fgetxattr(fd, name, v, l);
-
if (n >= 0 && (size_t) n < l) {
*value = v;
return n;