@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ libtraceevent-y += trace-seq.o
libtraceevent-y += parse-filter.o
libtraceevent-y += parse-utils.o
libtraceevent-y += kbuffer-parse.o
+libtraceevent-y += tep_strerror.o
plugin_jbd2-y += plugin_jbd2.o
plugin_hrtimer-y += plugin_hrtimer.o
@@ -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>
@@ -6201,35 +6200,6 @@ enum tep_errno tep_parse_event(struct tep_handle *pevent, const char *buf,
return __parse_event(pevent, &event, buf, size, sys);
}
-#undef _PE
-#define _PE(code, str) str
-static const char * const tep_error_str[] = {
- TEP_ERRORS
-};
-#undef _PE
-
-int tep_strerror(struct tep_handle *pevent __maybe_unused,
- enum tep_errno errnum, char *buf, size_t buflen)
-{
- int idx;
- const char *msg;
-
- if (errnum >= 0) {
- str_error_r(errnum, buf, buflen);
- return 0;
- }
-
- if (errnum <= __TEP_ERRNO__START ||
- errnum >= __TEP_ERRNO__END)
- return -1;
-
- idx = errnum - __TEP_ERRNO__START - 1;
- msg = tep_error_str[idx];
- snprintf(buf, buflen, "%s", msg);
-
- return 0;
-}
-
int get_field_val(struct trace_seq *s, struct tep_format_field *field,
const char *name, struct tep_record *record,
unsigned long long *val, int err)
new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1
+#undef _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include "event-parse.h"
+
+#undef _PE
+#define _PE(code, str) str
+static const char * const tep_error_str[] = {
+ TEP_ERRORS
+};
+#undef _PE
+
+/*
+ * The tools so far have been using the strerror_r() GNU variant, that returns
+ * a string, be it the buffer passed or something else.
+ *
+ * But that, besides being tricky in cases where we expect that the function
+ * using strerror_r() returns the error formatted in a provided buffer (we have
+ * to check if it returned something else and copy that instead), breaks the
+ * build on systems not using glibc, like Alpine Linux, where musl libc is
+ * used.
+ *
+ * So, introduce yet another wrapper, str_error_r(), that has the GNU
+ * interface, but uses the portable XSI variant of strerror_r(), so that users
+ * rest asured that the provided buffer is used and it is what is returned.
+ */
+int tep_strerror(struct tep_handle *tep __maybe_unused,
+ enum tep_errno errnum, char *buf, size_t buflen)
+{
+ const char *msg;
+ int idx;
+
+ if (!buflen)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (errnum >= 0) {
+ int err = strerror_r(errnum, buf, buflen);
+ buf[buflen - 1] = 0;
+ return err;
+ }
+
+ if (errnum <= __TEP_ERRNO__START ||
+ errnum >= __TEP_ERRNO__END)
+ return -1;
+
+ idx = errnum - __TEP_ERRNO__START - 1;
+ msg = tep_error_str[idx];
+ snprintf(buf, buflen, "%s", msg);
+
+ return 0;
+}