[PATCH v2 3/5] add slurp_proc_file()

[Sven Schnelle]

slurp_file() cannot be used to read proc files, as they are returning
a size of zero in stat(). Add a function slurp_proc_file() which is
similar to slurp_file(), but doesn't require the size of the file to
be known.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens at linux.ibm.com>
---
 kexec/kexec.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c
index f63b36b771eb..a1acba2adf2a 100644
--- a/kexec/kexec.c
+++ b/kexec/kexec.c
@@ -1106,6 +1106,38 @@ static void remove_parameter(char *line, const char *param_name)
 	}
 }
 
+static char *slurp_proc_file(const char *filename, size_t *len)
+{
+	ssize_t ret, startpos = 0;
+	unsigned int size = 64;
+	char *buf = NULL, *tmp;
+	int fd;
+
+	fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
+	if (fd == -1)
+		return NULL;
+
+	do {
+		size *= 2;
+		tmp = realloc(buf, size);
+		if (!tmp) {
+			free(buf);
+			return NULL;
+		}
+		buf = tmp;
+
+		ret = read(fd, buf + startpos, size - startpos);
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			free(buf);
+			return NULL;
+		}
+		startpos += ret;
+		*len = startpos;
+	} while (ret == size);
+
+	return buf;
+}
+
 /*
  * Returns the contents of the current command line to be used with
  * --reuse-cmdline option.  The function gets called from architecture specific
-- 
2.32.0