2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/safepath.c b/safepath.c
index 7d9f6fc..ce95740 100644
--- a/safepath.c
+++ b/safepath.c
@@ -248,11 +248,16 @@ int safepath_check(const char *name)
         goto free_out;
       }
 
-      if ((len = readlink(copy, link, sizeof link - 1)) < 0) {
+      if ((len = readlink(copy, link, sizeof link)) < 0) {
         ret = safepath_err(errno);
         goto free_out;
       }
 
+      if (len == sizeof link) {
+        ret = SAFEPATH_TOOLONG;
+        goto free_out;
+      }
+
       link[len] = 0;
 
       /* Resolve the symlink, using two different cases based
@@ -352,7 +357,8 @@ const char *safepath_strerr(int err)
     [SAFEPATH_NOTDIR]   = "path contains non-directory component",
     [SAFEPATH_INVAL]    = "path is syntactically invalid",
     [SAFEPATH_NOMEM]    = "out of memory",
-    [SAFEPATH_LOOP]     = "too many symlink resolutions"
+    [SAFEPATH_LOOP]     = "too many symlink resolutions",
+    [SAFEPATH_TOOLONG]  = "path component or symlink target too long"
   };
   const char *ret = "SAFEPATH_BAD_ERROR_CODE";
 
diff --git a/safepath.h b/safepath.h
index 766a163..99786b1 100644
--- a/safepath.h
+++ b/safepath.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ enum {
   SAFEPATH_INVAL,               /* path is invalid */
   SAFEPATH_NOMEM,               /* out of memory */
   SAFEPATH_LOOP,                /* more than 8 levels of symlink */
+  SAFEPATH_TOOLONG,             /* component or symlink target too long */
 };
 
 int safepath_check(const char *name);