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We want to read the whole contents of two files into memory. If we
switch from raw ptr/len pairs to strbufs, we can use strbuf_read_file()
to shorten the code.
This incidentally fixes two small bugs:
1. We stat() the files and allocate our buffers based on st.st_size.
But that is an off_t which may be larger than the size_t we'd use
to allocate. We should use xsize_t() to do a checked conversion.
Otherwise integer truncation (on a file >4GB) could cause us to
under-allocate (though in practice this does not result in a buffer
overflow because the same truncation happens when read_in_full()
also takes a size_t).
2. We get the size from st.st_size, and then try to read_in_full()
that many bytes. But it may return fewer bytes than expected (if
the file changed racily and we get an early EOF), leading us to
read uninitialized bytes in the allocated buffer. We don't notice
because we only check the value for error, not that we got the
expected number of bytes.
The strbuf code doesn't run into this, because it just reads to EOF,
expanding the buffer dynamically as necessary. Neither bug is a big deal
for a test helper, but fixing them is a nice bonus on top of simplifying
the code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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