2006-10-24 Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@g10code.de>
[gnupg.git] / common / membuf.c
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1 /* membuf.c - A simple implementation of a dynamic buffer
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22 #include <config.h>
23 #include <stdlib.h>
24 #include <errno.h>
26 #include "membuf.h"
28 #include "util.h"
31 /* A simple implementation of a dynamic buffer. Use init_membuf() to
32 create a buffer, put_membuf to append bytes and get_membuf to
33 release and return the buffer. Allocation errors are detected but
34 only returned at the final get_membuf(), this helps not to clutter
35 the code with out of core checks. */
37 void
38 init_membuf (membuf_t *mb, int initiallen)
40 mb->len = 0;
41 mb->size = initiallen;
42 mb->out_of_core = 0;
43 mb->buf = xtrymalloc (initiallen);
44 if (!mb->buf)
45 mb->out_of_core = errno;
48 /* Same as init_membuf but allocates the buffer in secure memory. */
49 void
50 init_membuf_secure (membuf_t *mb, int initiallen)
52 mb->len = 0;
53 mb->size = initiallen;
54 mb->out_of_core = 0;
55 mb->buf = xtrymalloc (initiallen);
56 if (!mb->buf)
57 mb->out_of_core = errno;
61 void
62 put_membuf (membuf_t *mb, const void *buf, size_t len)
64 if (mb->out_of_core)
65 return;
67 if (mb->len + len >= mb->size)
69 char *p;
71 mb->size += len + 1024;
72 p = xtryrealloc (mb->buf, mb->size);
73 if (!p)
75 mb->out_of_core = errno ? errno : ENOMEM;
76 /* Wipe out what we already accumulated. This is required
77 in case we are storing sensitive data here. The membuf
78 API does not provide another way to cleanup after an
79 error. */
80 memset (mb->buf, 0, mb->len);
81 return;
83 mb->buf = p;
85 memcpy (mb->buf + mb->len, buf, len);
86 mb->len += len;
90 void *
91 get_membuf (membuf_t *mb, size_t *len)
93 char *p;
95 if (mb->out_of_core)
97 xfree (mb->buf);
98 mb->buf = NULL;
99 errno = mb->out_of_core;
100 return NULL;
103 p = mb->buf;
104 if (len)
105 *len = mb->len;
106 mb->buf = NULL;
107 mb->out_of_core = ENOMEM; /* hack to make sure it won't get reused. */
108 return p;