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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 #if defined(__ANDROID__)
      6 // Post-L versions of bionic define the GNU-specific strerror_r if _GNU_SOURCE
      7 // is defined, but the symbol is renamed to __gnu_strerror_r which only exists
      8 // on those later versions. To preserve ABI compatibility with older versions,
      9 // undefine _GNU_SOURCE and use the POSIX version.
     10 #undef _GNU_SOURCE
     11 #endif
     12 
     13 #include "build/build_config.h"
     14 #include "base/safe_strerror_posix.h"
     15 
     16 #include <errno.h>
     17 #include <stdio.h>
     18 #include <string.h>
     19 
     20 #define USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R (defined(__GLIBC__) || defined(OS_NACL))
     21 
     22 #if USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R && defined(__GNUC__)
     23 // GCC will complain about the unused second wrap function unless we tell it
     24 // that we meant for them to be potentially unused, which is exactly what this
     25 // attribute is for.
     26 #define POSSIBLY_UNUSED __attribute__((unused))
     27 #else
     28 #define POSSIBLY_UNUSED
     29 #endif
     30 
     31 #if USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R
     32 // glibc has two strerror_r functions: a historical GNU-specific one that
     33 // returns type char *, and a POSIX.1-2001 compliant one available since 2.3.4
     34 // that returns int. This wraps the GNU-specific one.
     35 static void POSSIBLY_UNUSED wrap_posix_strerror_r(
     36     char *(*strerror_r_ptr)(int, char *, size_t),
     37     int err,
     38     char *buf,
     39     size_t len) {
     40   // GNU version.
     41   char *rc = (*strerror_r_ptr)(err, buf, len);
     42   if (rc != buf) {
     43     // glibc did not use buf and returned a static string instead. Copy it
     44     // into buf.
     45     buf[0] = '\0';
     46     strncat(buf, rc, len - 1);
     47   }
     48   // The GNU version never fails. Unknown errors get an "unknown error" message.
     49   // The result is always null terminated.
     50 }
     51 #endif  // USE_HISTORICAL_STRERRO_R
     52 
     53 // Wrapper for strerror_r functions that implement the POSIX interface. POSIX
     54 // does not define the behaviour for some of the edge cases, so we wrap it to
     55 // guarantee that they are handled. This is compiled on all POSIX platforms, but
     56 // it will only be used on Linux if the POSIX strerror_r implementation is
     57 // being used (see below).
     58 static void POSSIBLY_UNUSED wrap_posix_strerror_r(
     59     int (*strerror_r_ptr)(int, char *, size_t),
     60     int err,
     61     char *buf,
     62     size_t len) {
     63   int old_errno = errno;
     64   // Have to cast since otherwise we get an error if this is the GNU version
     65   // (but in such a scenario this function is never called). Sadly we can't use
     66   // C++-style casts because the appropriate one is reinterpret_cast but it's
     67   // considered illegal to reinterpret_cast a type to itself, so we get an
     68   // error in the opposite case.
     69   int result = (*strerror_r_ptr)(err, buf, len);
     70   if (result == 0) {
     71     // POSIX is vague about whether the string will be terminated, although
     72     // it indirectly implies that typically ERANGE will be returned, instead
     73     // of truncating the string. We play it safe by always terminating the
     74     // string explicitly.
     75     buf[len - 1] = '\0';
     76   } else {
     77     // Error. POSIX is vague about whether the return value is itself a system
     78     // error code or something else. On Linux currently it is -1 and errno is
     79     // set. On BSD-derived systems it is a system error and errno is unchanged.
     80     // We try and detect which case it is so as to put as much useful info as
     81     // we can into our message.
     82     int strerror_error;  // The error encountered in strerror
     83     int new_errno = errno;
     84     if (new_errno != old_errno) {
     85       // errno was changed, so probably the return value is just -1 or something
     86       // else that doesn't provide any info, and errno is the error.
     87       strerror_error = new_errno;
     88     } else {
     89       // Either the error from strerror_r was the same as the previous value, or
     90       // errno wasn't used. Assume the latter.
     91       strerror_error = result;
     92     }
     93     // snprintf truncates and always null-terminates.
     94     snprintf(buf,
     95              len,
     96              "Error %d while retrieving error %d",
     97              strerror_error,
     98              err);
     99   }
    100   errno = old_errno;
    101 }
    102 
    103 void safe_strerror_r(int err, char *buf, size_t len) {
    104   if (buf == NULL || len <= 0) {
    105     return;
    106   }
    107   // If using glibc (i.e., Linux), the compiler will automatically select the
    108   // appropriate overloaded function based on the function type of strerror_r.
    109   // The other one will be elided from the translation unit since both are
    110   // static.
    111   wrap_posix_strerror_r(&strerror_r, err, buf, len);
    112 }
    113 
    114 std::string safe_strerror(int err) {
    115   const int buffer_size = 256;
    116   char buf[buffer_size];
    117   safe_strerror_r(err, buf, sizeof(buf));
    118   return std::string(buf);
    119 }
    120