From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>,
Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Colin Patrick McCabe <cmccabe@alumni.cmu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH v3] tools/lib/traceevent: Replace str_error_r() with an open coded implementation
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 17:55:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181002175539.2ac894c7@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
While working on having PowerTop use libtracevent as a shared object
library, Tzvetomir hit "str_error_r not defined". This was added by commit
c3cec9e68f12d ("tools lib traceevent: Use str_error_r()") because
strerror_r() has two definitions, where one is GNU specific, and the other
is XSI complient. The strerror_r() is in a wrapper str_error_r() to keep the
code from having to worry about which compiler is being used.
The problem is that str_error_r() is external to libtraceevent, and not part
of the library. If it is used as a shared object then the tools using it
will need to define that function. I do not want that function defined in
libtraceevent itself, as it is out of scope for that library.
As there's only a single instance of this call, I replaced it with an open
coded algorithm that uses sys_nerr and sys_errlist error array with
strncpy() to place the error message in the given buffer. We don't need to
worry about the errors that strerror_r() returns. If the buffer isn't big
enough, we simply truncate it.
The sys_nerr and sys_errlist idea was found here:
http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~cmccabe/blog_strerror.html
Cc: Colin Patrick McCabe <cmccabe@alumni.cmu.edu>
Reported-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
Changes since v2:
Use sys_nerr and sys_errlist idea.
tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
index 7980fc6c3bac..d23d10bc5314 100644
--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <limits.h>
-#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/time64.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
@@ -6215,7 +6214,13 @@ int tep_strerror(struct tep_handle *pevent __maybe_unused,
const char *msg;
if (errnum >= 0) {
- str_error_r(errnum, buf, buflen);
+ if (buflen > 0) {
+ if (errnum < sys_nerr)
+ strncpy(buf, sys_errlist[errnum], buflen);
+ else
+ snprintf(buf, buflen, "Unknown error %d", errnum);
+ buf[buflen - 1] = 0;
+ }
return 0;
}
--
2.13.6
next reply other threads:[~2018-10-02 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-02 21:55 Steven Rostedt [this message]
2018-10-05 15:30 ` [PATCH v3] tools/lib/traceevent: Replace str_error_r() with an open coded implementation Steven Rostedt
2018-10-05 15:37 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-10-05 15:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-05 15:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-10-05 15:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-05 16:09 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-10-05 16:27 ` Colin McCabe
2018-10-05 16:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-05 19:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-10-05 21:41 ` Colin McCabe
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