Make 'prepare_temp_file()' ignore st_size for symlinks

The code was already set up to not really need it, so this just massages
it a bit to remove the use entirely.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 4b2029caa1c4a33154716ead5c385639f4b3f856..f160c1a35b786c8b1bb4451c254915bffde0fae3 100644 (file)
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -1881,13 +1881,12 @@ static void prepare_temp_file(const char *name,
                if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
                        int ret;
                        char buf[PATH_MAX + 1]; /* ought to be SYMLINK_MAX */
-                       size_t sz = xsize_t(st.st_size);
-                       if (sizeof(buf) <= st.st_size)
-                               die("symlink too long: %s", name);
-                       ret = readlink(name, buf, sz);
+                       ret = readlink(name, buf, sizeof(buf));
                        if (ret < 0)
                                die("readlink(%s)", name);
-                       prep_temp_blob(temp, buf, sz,
+                       if (ret == sizeof(buf))
+                               die("symlink too long: %s", name);
+                       prep_temp_blob(temp, buf, ret,
                                       (one->sha1_valid ?
                                        one->sha1 : null_sha1),
                                       (one->sha1_valid ?