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-rw-r--r--rlp/decode.go14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/rlp/decode.go b/rlp/decode.go
index 4462d4be4..f17690522 100644
--- a/rlp/decode.go
+++ b/rlp/decode.go
@@ -110,9 +110,17 @@ func Decode(r io.Reader, val interface{}) error {
// DecodeBytes parses RLP data from b into val.
// Please see the documentation of Decode for the decoding rules.
+// The input must contain exactly one value and no trailing data.
func DecodeBytes(b []byte, val interface{}) error {
// TODO: this could use a Stream from a pool.
- return NewStream(bytes.NewReader(b), uint64(len(b))).Decode(val)
+ r := bytes.NewReader(b)
+ if err := NewStream(r, uint64(len(b))).Decode(val); err != nil {
+ return err
+ }
+ if r.Len() > 0 {
+ return ErrMoreThanOneValue
+ }
+ return nil
}
type decodeError struct {
@@ -517,6 +525,10 @@ var (
ErrElemTooLarge = errors.New("rlp: element is larger than containing list")
ErrValueTooLarge = errors.New("rlp: value size exceeds available input length")
+ // This error is reported by DecodeBytes if the slice contains
+ // additional data after the first RLP value.
+ ErrMoreThanOneValue = errors.New("rlp: input contains more than one value")
+
// internal errors
errNotInList = errors.New("rlp: call of ListEnd outside of any list")
errNotAtEOL = errors.New("rlp: call of ListEnd not positioned at EOL")