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      1 // Copyright (c) 2006-2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #include "build/build_config.h"
      6 #include "base/safe_strerror_posix.h"
      7 
      8 #include <errno.h>
      9 #include <stdio.h>
     10 #include <string.h>
     11 
     12 #define USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R (defined(__GLIBC__) || defined(OS_NACL))
     13 
     14 #if USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R && defined(__GNUC__)
     15 // GCC will complain about the unused second wrap function unless we tell it
     16 // that we meant for them to be potentially unused, which is exactly what this
     17 // attribute is for.
     18 #define POSSIBLY_UNUSED __attribute__((unused))
     19 #else
     20 #define POSSIBLY_UNUSED
     21 #endif
     22 
     23 #if USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R
     24 // glibc has two strerror_r functions: a historical GNU-specific one that
     25 // returns type char *, and a POSIX.1-2001 compliant one available since 2.3.4
     26 // that returns int. This wraps the GNU-specific one.
     27 static void POSSIBLY_UNUSED wrap_posix_strerror_r(
     28     char *(*strerror_r_ptr)(int, char *, size_t),
     29     int err,
     30     char *buf,
     31     size_t len) {
     32   // GNU version.
     33   char *rc = (*strerror_r_ptr)(err, buf, len);
     34   if (rc != buf) {
     35     // glibc did not use buf and returned a static string instead. Copy it
     36     // into buf.
     37     buf[0] = '\0';
     38     strncat(buf, rc, len - 1);
     39   }
     40   // The GNU version never fails. Unknown errors get an "unknown error" message.
     41   // The result is always null terminated.
     42 }
     43 #endif  // USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R
     44 
     45 // Wrapper for strerror_r functions that implement the POSIX interface. POSIX
     46 // does not define the behaviour for some of the edge cases, so we wrap it to
     47 // guarantee that they are handled. This is compiled on all POSIX platforms, but
     48 // it will only be used on Linux if the POSIX strerror_r implementation is
     49 // being used (see below).
     50 static void POSSIBLY_UNUSED wrap_posix_strerror_r(
     51     int (*strerror_r_ptr)(int, char *, size_t),
     52     int err,
     53     char *buf,
     54     size_t len) {
     55   int old_errno = errno;
     56   // Have to cast since otherwise we get an error if this is the GNU version
     57   // (but in such a scenario this function is never called). Sadly we can't use
     58   // C++-style casts because the appropriate one is reinterpret_cast but it's
     59   // considered illegal to reinterpret_cast a type to itself, so we get an
     60   // error in the opposite case.
     61   int result = (*strerror_r_ptr)(err, buf, len);
     62   if (result == 0) {
     63     // POSIX is vague about whether the string will be terminated, although
     64     // it indirectly implies that typically ERANGE will be returned, instead
     65     // of truncating the string. We play it safe by always terminating the
     66     // string explicitly.
     67     buf[len - 1] = '\0';
     68   } else {
     69     // Error. POSIX is vague about whether the return value is itself a system
     70     // error code or something else. On Linux currently it is -1 and errno is
     71     // set. On BSD-derived systems it is a system error and errno is unchanged.
     72     // We try and detect which case it is so as to put as much useful info as
     73     // we can into our message.
     74     int strerror_error;  // The error encountered in strerror
     75     int new_errno = errno;
     76     if (new_errno != old_errno) {
     77       // errno was changed, so probably the return value is just -1 or something
     78       // else that doesn't provide any info, and errno is the error.
     79       strerror_error = new_errno;
     80     } else {
     81       // Either the error from strerror_r was the same as the previous value, or
     82       // errno wasn't used. Assume the latter.
     83       strerror_error = result;
     84     }
     85     // snprintf truncates and always null-terminates.
     86     snprintf(buf,
     87              len,
     88              "Error %d while retrieving error %d",
     89              strerror_error,
     90              err);
     91   }
     92   errno = old_errno;
     93 }
     94 
     95 void safe_strerror_r(int err, char *buf, size_t len) {
     96   if (buf == NULL || len <= 0) {
     97     return;
     98   }
     99   // If using glibc (i.e., Linux), the compiler will automatically select the
    100   // appropriate overloaded function based on the function type of strerror_r.
    101   // The other one will be elided from the translation unit since both are
    102   // static.
    103   wrap_posix_strerror_r(&strerror_r, err, buf, len);
    104 }
    105 
    106 std::string safe_strerror(int err) {
    107   const int buffer_size = 256;
    108   char buf[buffer_size];
    109   safe_strerror_r(err, buf, sizeof(buf));
    110   return std::string(buf);
    111 }
    112