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-rw-r--r--builtin-apply.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index 4c4d1e1774..07244b0736 100644
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -1559,10 +1559,8 @@ static int read_old_data(struct stat *st, const char *path, struct strbuf *buf)
{
switch (st->st_mode & S_IFMT) {
case S_IFLNK:
- strbuf_grow(buf, st->st_size);
- if (readlink(path, buf->buf, st->st_size) != st->st_size)
- return -1;
- strbuf_setlen(buf, st->st_size);
+ if (strbuf_readlink(buf, path, st->st_size) < 0)
+ return error("unable to read symlink %s", path);
return 0;
case S_IFREG:
if (strbuf_read_file(buf, path, st->st_size) != st->st_size)