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-rw-r--r--host/lib/include/host_misc.h1
-rw-r--r--host/lib21/host_misc.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/host/lib/include/host_misc.h b/host/lib/include/host_misc.h
index 9759d44d..0249420b 100644
--- a/host/lib/include/host_misc.h
+++ b/host/lib/include/host_misc.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ vb2_error_t WriteFile(const char* filename, const void *data, uint64_t size);
/**
* Read data from a file into a newly allocated buffer.
+ * The buffer will end with an extra null byte ('\0', not counted in size).
*
* @param filename Name of file to read from
* @param data_ptr On exit, pointer to newly allocated buffer with data
diff --git a/host/lib21/host_misc.c b/host/lib21/host_misc.c
index ebc4eac5..6c0e0ef3 100644
--- a/host/lib21/host_misc.c
+++ b/host/lib21/host_misc.c
@@ -42,11 +42,12 @@ vb2_error_t vb2_read_file(const char *filename, uint8_t **data_ptr,
return VB2_ERROR_READ_FILE_SIZE;
}
- buf = malloc(size);
+ buf = malloc(size + 1);
if (!buf) {
fclose(f);
return VB2_ERROR_READ_FILE_ALLOC;
}
+ buf[size] = '\0';
if(1 != fread(buf, size, 1, f)) {
VB2_DEBUG("Unable to read file %s\n", filename);