// Copyright (c) 2006-2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #include "build/build_config.h" #include "base/safe_strerror_posix.h" #include <errno.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #define USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R (defined(__GLIBC__) || defined(OS_NACL)) #if USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R && defined(__GNUC__) // GCC will complain about the unused second wrap function unless we tell it // that we meant for them to be potentially unused, which is exactly what this // attribute is for. #define POSSIBLY_UNUSED __attribute__((unused)) #else #define POSSIBLY_UNUSED #endif #if USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R // glibc has two strerror_r functions: a historical GNU-specific one that // returns type char *, and a POSIX.1-2001 compliant one available since 2.3.4 // that returns int. This wraps the GNU-specific one. static void POSSIBLY_UNUSED wrap_posix_strerror_r( char *(*strerror_r_ptr)(int, char *, size_t), int err, char *buf, size_t len) { // GNU version. char *rc = (*strerror_r_ptr)(err, buf, len); if (rc != buf) { // glibc did not use buf and returned a static string instead. Copy it // into buf. buf[0] = '\0'; strncat(buf, rc, len - 1); } // The GNU version never fails. Unknown errors get an "unknown error" message. // The result is always null terminated. } #endif // USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R // Wrapper for strerror_r functions that implement the POSIX interface. POSIX // does not define the behaviour for some of the edge cases, so we wrap it to // guarantee that they are handled. This is compiled on all POSIX platforms, but // it will only be used on Linux if the POSIX strerror_r implementation is // being used (see below). static void POSSIBLY_UNUSED wrap_posix_strerror_r( int (*strerror_r_ptr)(int, char *, size_t), int err, char *buf, size_t len) { int old_errno = errno; // Have to cast since otherwise we get an error if this is the GNU version // (but in such a scenario this function is never called). Sadly we can't use // C++-style casts because the appropriate one is reinterpret_cast but it's // considered illegal to reinterpret_cast a type to itself, so we get an // error in the opposite case. int result = (*strerror_r_ptr)(err, buf, len); if (result == 0) { // POSIX is vague about whether the string will be terminated, although // it indirectly implies that typically ERANGE will be returned, instead // of truncating the string. We play it safe by always terminating the // string explicitly. buf[len - 1] = '\0'; } else { // Error. POSIX is vague about whether the return value is itself a system // error code or something else. On Linux currently it is -1 and errno is // set. On BSD-derived systems it is a system error and errno is unchanged. // We try and detect which case it is so as to put as much useful info as // we can into our message. int strerror_error; // The error encountered in strerror int new_errno = errno; if (new_errno != old_errno) { // errno was changed, so probably the return value is just -1 or something // else that doesn't provide any info, and errno is the error. strerror_error = new_errno; } else { // Either the error from strerror_r was the same as the previous value, or // errno wasn't used. Assume the latter. strerror_error = result; } // snprintf truncates and always null-terminates. snprintf(buf, len, "Error %d while retrieving error %d", strerror_error, err); } errno = old_errno; } void safe_strerror_r(int err, char *buf, size_t len) { if (buf == NULL || len <= 0) { return; } // If using glibc (i.e., Linux), the compiler will automatically select the // appropriate overloaded function based on the function type of strerror_r. // The other one will be elided from the translation unit since both are // static. wrap_posix_strerror_r(&strerror_r, err, buf, len); } std::string safe_strerror(int err) { const int buffer_size = 256; char buf[buffer_size]; safe_strerror_r(err, buf, sizeof(buf)); return std::string(buf); }