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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] trace: forbid use of %m in trace event f
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] trace: forbid use of %m in trace event format strings |
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Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:10:06 -0600 |
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On 1/22/19 11:23 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>
>>> On this point though, does anyone know of any platforms we support[1],
>>> or are likely to support in future, where 'strerror' is *not* thread
>>> safe ?
>>
>> I'm not coming up with one, and I think the problem is independent of
>> this series (if we DO have a problem, it's a series all its own to
>> eradicate the use of strerror() in favor of something safer, either
>> picking strerror_l() or dealing with the glibc vs. BSD differences in
>> strerror_r()).
>
> Agree that its not really something for this series - this just
> made me think of it again.
Shoot - FreeBSD strerror() is not threadsafe:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/lib/libc/string/strerror.c#L119
char *
strerror(int num)
{
static char ebuf[NL_TEXTMAX];
if (strerror_r(num, ebuf, sizeof(ebuf)) != 0)
errno = EINVAL;
return (ebuf);
}
>
> We went through the scrubbing in libvirt to use the sane, but still
> tedious to call, variant of strerror_r() many years ago. With luck
> though it is a worry that can be confined the dustbin of ancient
> UNIX history....unless someone can point to evidence to the contrary ?
libvirt has it easy - they let gnulib do all the work of futzing around
with getting a working strerror() despite platform bugs and despite
glibc's insistence on a non-POSIX signature if _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
We'll have to do a bit more legwork.
That said, I've added it to:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/BiteSizedTasks#Error_checking
if someone wants to do the grunt work.
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] trace: enforce that every trace-events file has a final newline, (continued)
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] trace: add ability to do simple printf logging via systemtap, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2019/01/18