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Overflowz



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Overflowz 13 Mar 2011, 16:40
Hi everyone. I'm stuck on ReadFile API.. I've followed MSDN but seems it's not helpful for me.. I tried so much but every time I'm getting ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE or ERROR_NOACCESS.. Here's code and tell me someone what I'm doing wrong! Thank you.
Code:
format PE GUI 4.0
include 'WIN32AX.INC'
entry main
section '.data' data readable writeable
hFile dd ?
fSize dd ?
buffer dd ?
rbytes dd ?
fname db "test.txt",0
section '.text' code readable executable
proc main
invoke CreateFile,fname,GENERIC_READ,FILE_SHARE_READ+FILE_SHARE_WRITE,0,OPEN_EXISTING,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL or FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED,0
mov [hFile],eax
invoke GetFileSize,eax,0
mov [fSize],eax
invoke ReadFile,[hFile],buffer,[fSize],0,0
invoke MessageBox,0,ebx,ebx,MB_OK+MB_ICONINFORMATION
ret
endp
section '.idata' import data readable
library user32,'user32.dll',\
        kernel32,'kernel32.dll'
include 'API\USER32.INC'
include 'API\KERNEL32.INC'
section '.reloc' fixups data discardable readable    


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b1528932



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b1528932 13 Mar 2011, 17:10
it require either overlapped or number_of_transferred. Otherwise how would you know how many data you read?
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Overflowz



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Overflowz 13 Mar 2011, 18:30
same problem with this.
Code:
format PE GUI 4.0
include 'WIN32AX.INC'
entry main
section '.data' data readable writeable
hFile dd ?
fSize dd ?
buffer dd ?
rbytes dd ?
fname db "test.txt",0
section '.text' code readable executable
proc main
invoke CreateFile,fname,GENERIC_READ,FILE_SHARE_READ+FILE_SHARE_WRITE,0,OPEN_EXISTING,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL+FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED,0
mov [hFile],eax
xor ecx,ecx
invoke GetFileSize,eax,ecx
mov [fSize],eax
invoke ReadFile,[hFile],buffer,[fSize],rbytes,0
invoke MessageBox,0,buffer,buffer,MB_OK+MB_ICONINFORMATION
ret
endp
section '.idata' import data readable
library user32,'user32.dll',\
        kernel32,'kernel32.dll'
include 'API\USER32.INC'
include 'API\KERNEL32.INC'
section '.reloc' fixups data discardable readable    
Post 13 Mar 2011, 18:30
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Picnic



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Picnic 14 Mar 2011, 09:16
Hi,

Unless you dynamically allocate bytes using the api to get a dwpointer, buffer must be delcared.

Code:
section '.data' data readable writeable
hFile dd ?
fSize dd ?
buffer rb 1024
rbytes dd ?
fname db "test.txt",0
section '.text' code readable executable
proc main
invoke CreateFile,fname,GENERIC_READ,FILE_SHARE_READ+FILE_SHARE_WRITE,0,OPEN_EXISTING,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,0
mov [hFile],eax
xor ecx,ecx
invoke GetFileSize,eax,ecx
mov [fSize],eax
invoke ReadFile,[hFile],buffer,[fSize],rbytes,0
invoke MessageBox,0,buffer,fname,MB_OK+MB_ICONINFORMATION
ret
endp
    
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Overflowz



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Overflowz 14 Mar 2011, 10:43
Picnic
Thank you! I got it now and isn't better way to allocate memory space for file ? like GlobalAlloc or LocalAlloc ? I don't know what difference are between them.. Because I need to work with files more than 100MB+
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Picnic



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Picnic 14 Mar 2011, 11:16
Overflowz wrote:
Picnic
Thank you! I got it now and isn't better way to allocate memory space for file ? like GlobalAlloc or LocalAlloc ? I don't know what difference are between them.. Because I need to work with files more than 100MB+

You're welcome.

Yes i think it's the only way for such big files. Search windows section about dynamic memory allocation to read about the differences.
Don't forget, error checking for each api function!

Code:
section '.data' data readable writeable
hFile dd ?
fSize dd ?
hHeap dd ?
buffer dd ?
rbytes dd ?
fname db "test.txt",0
section '.text' code readable executable
proc main
invoke CreateFile,fname,GENERIC_READ,FILE_SHARE_READ+FILE_SHARE_WRITE,0,OPEN_EXISTING,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,0
mov [hFile],eax
xor ecx,ecx
invoke GetFileSize,eax,ecx
mov [fSize],eax
invoke GetProcessHeap
mov [hHeap], eax
invoke HeapAlloc, [hHeap], HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY, [fSize]
mov [buffer], eax
invoke ReadFile,[hFile],[buffer],[fSize],rbytes,0
invoke MessageBox,0,[buffer],fname,MB_OK+MB_ICONINFORMATION
invoke HeapFree, [hHeap], 0, [buffer]
ret
endp
    


p.s. HeapAlloc usage, hope it runs, i'm at the office Smile
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Overflowz



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Overflowz 14 Mar 2011, 17:06
What's difference between HeapAlloc/GlobalAlloc/LocalAlloc functions ?
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SFeLi



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SFeLi 15 Mar 2011, 06:06
GlobalAlloc and LocalAlloc functions are using HeapAlloc (which is forwarded to NTDLL.RtlAllocateHeap) to allocate memory. There was a difference between Global/Local in 16-bit world (Win 3.1), but now both do the same thing.
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Overflowz



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Overflowz 15 Mar 2011, 10:54
SFeLi
Got it, thanks for info Smile
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