Once a pattern file can be much larger, it will be possible that
kernel will return a short read while loading the file and thus may
randomly only load part of the file.
Fix this by putting the read in a loop so the entire file will be
read.
---
lib/pattern.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/pattern.c b/lib/pattern.c
index 70d0313d237e..d324263c2b34 100644
--- a/lib/pattern.c
+++ b/lib/pattern.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static const char *parse_file(const char *beg, char *out,
const char *end;
char *file;
int fd;
- ssize_t count;
+ ssize_t rc, count = 0;
if (!out_len)
goto err_out;
@@ -52,9 +52,16 @@ static const char *parse_file(const char *beg, char *out,
goto err_free_out;
if (out) {
- count = read(fd, out, out_len);
- if (count == -1)
- goto err_free_close_out;
+ while (1) {
+ rc = read(fd, out, out_len - count);
+ if (rc == 0)
+ break;
+ if (rc == -1)
+ goto err_free_close_out;
+
+ count += rc;
+ out += rc;
+ }
} else {
count = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
if (count == -1)
--
2.30.2
