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-rw-r--r--src/basic/fileio.c115
-rw-r--r--src/basic/fileio.h1
-rw-r--r--src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c2
3 files changed, 113 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/fileio.c b/src/basic/fileio.c
index a9c0fd20e1..e1600a1e6a 100644
--- a/src/basic/fileio.c
+++ b/src/basic/fileio.c
@@ -310,6 +310,113 @@ int verify_file(const char *fn, const char *blob, bool accept_extra_nl) {
return 1;
}
+int read_full_virtual_file(const char *filename, char **ret_contents, size_t *ret_size) {
+ _cleanup_free_ char *buf = NULL;
+ _cleanup_close_ int fd = -1;
+ struct stat st;
+ size_t n, size;
+ int n_retries;
+ char *p;
+
+ assert(ret_contents);
+
+ /* Virtual filesystems such as sysfs or procfs use kernfs, and kernfs can work
+ * with two sorts of virtual files. One sort uses "seq_file", and the results of
+ * the first read are buffered for the second read. The other sort uses "raw"
+ * reads which always go direct to the device. In the latter case, the content of
+ * the virtual file must be retrieved with a single read otherwise a second read
+ * might get the new value instead of finding EOF immediately. That's the reason
+ * why the usage of fread(3) is prohibited in this case as it always performs a
+ * second call to read(2) looking for EOF. See issue 13585. */
+
+ fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC);
+ if (fd < 0)
+ return -errno;
+
+ /* Start size for files in /proc which usually report a file size of 0. */
+ size = LINE_MAX / 2;
+
+ /* Limit the number of attempts to read the number of bytes returned by fstat(). */
+ n_retries = 3;
+
+ for (;;) {
+ if (n_retries <= 0)
+ return -EIO;
+
+ if (fstat(fd, &st) < 0)
+ return -errno;
+
+ if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
+ return -EBADF;
+
+ /* Be prepared for files from /proc which generally report a file size of 0. */
+ if (st.st_size > 0) {
+ size = st.st_size;
+ n_retries--;
+ } else
+ size = size * 2;
+
+ if (size > READ_FULL_BYTES_MAX)
+ return -E2BIG;
+
+ p = realloc(buf, size + 1);
+ if (!p)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ buf = TAKE_PTR(p);
+
+ for (;;) {
+ ssize_t k;
+
+ /* Read one more byte so we can detect whether the content of the
+ * file has already changed or the guessed size for files from /proc
+ * wasn't large enough . */
+ k = read(fd, buf, size + 1);
+ if (k >= 0) {
+ n = k;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (errno != -EINTR)
+ return -errno;
+ }
+
+ /* Consider a short read as EOF */
+ if (n <= size)
+ break;
+
+ /* Hmm... either we read too few bytes from /proc or less likely the content
+ * of the file might have been changed (and is now bigger) while we were
+ * processing, let's try again either with a bigger guessed size or the new
+ * file size. */
+
+ if (lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET) < 0)
+ return -errno;
+ }
+
+ if (n < size) {
+ p = realloc(buf, n + 1);
+ if (!p)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ buf = TAKE_PTR(p);
+ }
+
+ if (!ret_size) {
+ /* Safety check: if the caller doesn't want to know the size of what we
+ * just read it will rely on the trailing NUL byte. But if there's an
+ * embedded NUL byte, then we should refuse operation as otherwise
+ * there'd be ambiguity about what we just read. */
+
+ if (memchr(buf, 0, n))
+ return -EBADMSG;
+ } else
+ *ret_size = n;
+
+ buf[n] = 0;
+ *ret_contents = TAKE_PTR(buf);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
int read_full_stream_full(
FILE *f,
const char *filename,
@@ -342,9 +449,9 @@ int read_full_stream_full(
if (st.st_size > READ_FULL_BYTES_MAX)
return -E2BIG;
- /* Start with the right file size, but be prepared for files from /proc which generally report a file
- * size of 0. Note that we increase the size to read here by one, so that the first read attempt
- * already makes us notice the EOF. */
+ /* Start with the right file size. Note that we increase the size
+ * to read here by one, so that the first read attempt already
+ * makes us notice the EOF. */
if (st.st_size > 0)
n_next = st.st_size + 1;
@@ -502,7 +609,7 @@ int get_proc_field(const char *filename, const char *pattern, const char *termin
assert(pattern);
assert(field);
- r = read_full_file(filename, &status, NULL);
+ r = read_full_virtual_file(filename, &status, NULL);
if (r < 0)
return r;
diff --git a/src/basic/fileio.h b/src/basic/fileio.h
index 05f6c89da0..31bfef33ac 100644
--- a/src/basic/fileio.h
+++ b/src/basic/fileio.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ int read_full_file_full(const char *filename, ReadFullFileFlags flags, char **co
static inline int read_full_file(const char *filename, char **contents, size_t *size) {
return read_full_file_full(filename, 0, contents, size);
}
+int read_full_virtual_file(const char *filename, char **ret_contents, size_t *ret_size);
int read_full_stream_full(FILE *f, const char *filename, ReadFullFileFlags flags, char **contents, size_t *size);
static inline int read_full_stream(FILE *f, char **contents, size_t *size) {
return read_full_stream_full(f, NULL, 0, contents, size);
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c
index 26ae453ea7..f35612fe12 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c
@@ -1786,7 +1786,7 @@ _public_ int sd_device_get_sysattr_value(sd_device *device, const char *sysattr,
size_t size;
/* read attribute value */
- r = read_full_file(path, &value, &size);
+ r = read_full_virtual_file(path, &value, &size);
if (r < 0)
return r;