From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ferruh Yigit Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: fix API to get error string Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 15:39:04 +0000 Message-ID: <6b854290-7835-4a05-1273-ddab0b740957@intel.com> References: <20181031171928.61110-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <20181102095046.GA32112@jerin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Bruce Richardson , "dev@dpdk.org" , "stable@dpdk.org" To: Jerin Jacob Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20181102095046.GA32112@jerin> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 11/2/2018 9:51 AM, Jerin Jacob wrote: > -----Original Message----- >> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:19:28 +0000 >> From: Ferruh Yigit >> To: Bruce Richardson >> CC: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit , stable@dpdk.org >> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix API to get error string >> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.2 >> >> External Email >> >> rte_strerror uses strerror_r(), and strerror_r() has two version of it. >> - XSI-compliant version, (_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L) && ! _GNU_SOURCE >> - GNU-specific version >> >> Those two has different return types, so the exiting return type check >> is not correct for GNU-specific version. >> >> And this is causing failure in errno_autotest unit test. >> >> Adding different implementation for FreeBSD and Linux. >> >> Fixes: 016c32bd3e3d ("eal: cleanup strerror function") >> Cc: stable@dpdk.org >> >> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit >> --- >> lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_errno.c | 8 ++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_errno.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_errno.c >> index 56b492f5f..fbbc71b0b 100644 >> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_errno.c >> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_errno.c >> @@ -38,9 +38,17 @@ rte_strerror(int errnum) >> case E_RTE_NO_CONFIG: >> return "Missing rte_config structure"; >> default: >> +#ifdef RTE_EXEC_ENV_BSDAPP >> if (strerror_r(errnum, ret, RETVAL_SZ) != 0) >> snprintf(ret, RETVAL_SZ, "Unknown error%s %d", >> sep, errnum); >> +#else >> + /* >> + * _GNU_SOURCE version, error string is not always >> + * strored in "ret" buffer, need to use return value >> + */ >> + ret = strerror_r(errnum, ret, RETVAL_SZ); > > Probably this will fail in musl c version. > https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/string/strerror_r.c You are right, it will fail with musl. It may not be good idea to separate this as BSD and Linux. Instead of playing with strerror_r(), what about use strerror() and copy string to RTE_PER_LCORE(retval)? I will send a patch for it. > > Another alternative of this patch. > > http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/47706/ I think this works, but I am not sure if it will have any side effect. And if we want to add more functions to this file, that may be effected. I am more to fix this locally in rte_strerror() function. > >> +#endif >> } >> >> return ret; >> -- >> 2.17.2 >>