Add tokio_util::io::read_exact_arc to safely read a new uninitialized Arc

tokio-util/src/io/mod.rs

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 mod copy_to_bytes;
 mod inspect;
+mod read_arc;
 mod read_buf;
 mod reader_stream;
 mod sink_writer;
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ cfg_io_util! {
 
 pub use self::copy_to_bytes::CopyToBytes;
 pub use self::inspect::{InspectReader, InspectWriter};
+pub use self::read_arc::read_exact_arc;
 pub use self::read_buf::read_buf;
 pub use self::reader_stream::ReaderStream;
 pub use self::sink_writer::SinkWriter;

tokio-util/src/io/read_arc.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+use std::io;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncReadExt};
+
+/// Read data from an `AsyncRead` into an `Arc`.
+///
+/// This uses `Arc::new_uninit_slice` and reads into the resulting uninitialized `Arc`.
+///
+/// # Example
+///
+/// ```
+/// # #[tokio::main]
+/// # async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
+/// use tokio_util::io::read_exact_arc;
+///
+/// let read = tokio::io::repeat(42);
+///
+/// let arc = read_exact_arc(read, 4).await?;
+///
+/// assert_eq!(&arc[..], &[42; 4]);
+/// # Ok(())
+/// # }
+/// ```
+pub async fn read_exact_arc<R>(mut read: R, len: usize) -> io::Result<Arc<[u8]>>
+where
+    R: AsyncRead + Unpin,
+{
+    let mut arc = Arc::new_uninit_slice(len);
+    let mut buf = unsafe { Arc::get_mut(&mut arc).unwrap_unchecked() };
+    let mut bytes_remaining = len;
+    while bytes_remaining != 0 {
+        let bytes_read = read.read_buf(&mut buf).await?;
+        if bytes_read == 0 {
+            return Err(io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof, "early eof"));
+        }
+        bytes_remaining -= bytes_read;
+    }
+    Ok(unsafe { arc.assume_init() })
+}