Re: [PATCH 4/4] tools lib traceevent: Fix strerror_r() use inpevent_strerror

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Wed Aug 22 2012 - 04:20:12 EST


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:00:31PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx>
>
> glibc-2.16 starts to mark the function with attribute
> warn_unused_result so that it can cause a build warning.
>
> Since GNU version of strerror_r() can return a pointer to a string
> without setting @buf, check the return value and copy/truncate it to
> our buffer if needed.
>
> Cc: Fredereic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c | 7 ++++++-
> tools/lib/traceevent/event-utils.h | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> index 1373e4cf109e..f978c59f67bf 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> @@ -4809,7 +4809,12 @@ int pevent_strerror(struct pevent *pevent, enum pevent_errno errnum,
> const char *msg;
>
> if (errnum >= 0) {
> - strerror_r(errnum, buf, buflen);
> + msg = strerror_r(errnum, buf, buflen);
> + if (msg != buf) {
> + size_t len = strlen(msg);
> + char *c = mempcpy(buf, msg, min(buflen-1, len));
> + *c = '\0';
> + }
> return 0;
> }
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-utils.h b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-utils.h
> index 08296383d1e6..bc075006966e 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-utils.h
> +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-utils.h
> @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ void __vdie(const char *fmt, ...);
> void __vwarning(const char *fmt, ...);
> void __vpr_stat(const char *fmt, ...);
>
> +#define min(x, y) ({ \
> + typeof(x) _min1 = (x); \
> + typeof(y) _min2 = (y); \
> + (void) (&_min1 == &_min2); \
> + _min1 < _min2 ? _min1 : _min2; })
> +
> static inline char *strim(char *string)
> {
> char *ret;
> --
> 1.7.11.4
>

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Kirill A. Shutemov
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