1 files changed, 89 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/util.c b/src/basic/util.c
index f81bf4e31e..d4d3d3c83a 100644
--- a/src/basic/util.c
+++ b/src/basic/util.c
@@ -115,17 +115,23 @@ size_t page_size(void) {
         return pgsz;
 }
 
-bool streq_ptr(const char *a, const char *b) {
-
-        /* Like streq(), but tries to make sense of NULL pointers */
+int strcmp_ptr(const char *a, const char *b) {
 
+        /* Like strcmp(), but tries to make sense of NULL pointers */
         if (a && b)
-                return streq(a, b);
+                return strcmp(a, b);
 
-        if (!a && !b)
-                return true;
+        if (!a && b)
+                return -1;
 
-        return false;
+        if (a && !b)
+                return 1;
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+bool streq_ptr(const char *a, const char *b) {
+        return strcmp_ptr(a, b) == 0;
 }
 
 char* endswith(const char *s, const char *postfix) {
@@ -954,7 +960,12 @@ int unhexmem(const char *p, size_t l, void **mem, size_t *len) {
         return 0;
 }
 
-/* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#section-6 */
+/* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#section-6
+ * Notice that base32hex differs from base32 in the alphabet it uses.
+ * The distinction is that the base32hex representation preserves the
+ * order of the underlying data when compared as bytestrings, this is
+ * useful when representing NSEC3 hashes, as one can then verify the
+ * order of hashes directly from their representation. */
 char base32hexchar(int x) {
         static const char table[32] = "0123456789"
                                       "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV";
@@ -6592,3 +6603,73 @@ int reset_uid_gid(void) {
 
         return 0;
 }
+
+int getxattr_malloc(const char *path, const char *name, char **value, bool allow_symlink) {
+        char *v;
+        size_t l;
+        ssize_t n;
+
+        assert(path);
+        assert(name);
+        assert(value);
+
+        for (l = 100; ; l = (size_t) n + 1) {
+                v = new0(char, l);
+                if (!v)
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                if (allow_symlink)
+                        n = lgetxattr(path, name, v, l);
+                else
+                        n = getxattr(path, name, v, l);
+
+                if (n >= 0 && (size_t) n < l) {
+                        *value = v;
+                        return n;
+                }
+
+                free(v);
+
+                if (n < 0 && errno != ERANGE)
+                        return -errno;
+
+                if (allow_symlink)
+                        n = lgetxattr(path, name, NULL, 0);
+                else
+                        n = getxattr(path, name, NULL, 0);
+                if (n < 0)
+                        return -errno;
+        }
+}
+
+int fgetxattr_malloc(int fd, const char *name, char **value) {
+        char *v;
+        size_t l;
+        ssize_t n;
+
+        assert(fd >= 0);
+        assert(name);
+        assert(value);
+
+        for (l = 100; ; l = (size_t) n + 1) {
+                v = new0(char, l);
+                if (!v)
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                n = fgetxattr(fd, name, v, l);
+
+                if (n >= 0 && (size_t) n < l) {
+                        *value = v;
+                        return n;
+                }
+
+                free(v);
+
+                if (n < 0 && errno != ERANGE)
+                        return -errno;
+
+                n = fgetxattr(fd, name, NULL, 0);
+                if (n < 0)
+                        return -errno;
+        }
+}