On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 06:04:04PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:24:18PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Ján Tomko wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On a Friday in 2022, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Michal Prívozník wrote:
> > > > > > > I don't think so. Just like we've discussed under one patch of yours, a
> > > > > > > function should either report error in all cases or none. And in case of
> > > > > > > virProcessGetSchedInfo() the linux version does report error
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I see your point but there is also a bug in that function - not all error
> > > > > > paths report errors. For example, !proc and !lines cases. We need to fix
> > > > > > that.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't see a !proc error path in virProcessGetSchedInfo.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > if (tid)
> > > > proc = g_strdup_printf("/proc/%d/task/%d/sched", (int) pid, (int)
> > > > tid);
> > > > else
> > > > proc = g_strdup_printf("/proc/%d/sched", (int) pid);
> > > > if (!proc)
> > > > return -1; <=== not reported
> > >
> > > g_strdup_printf can't fail unless we mangled the printf format string
> > > (which we havent), so that 'if (!proc)' check is redundant / unreachable
> > >
> >
> > I am ok with Michal's patch that removes this check. However, such
> > assumptutions does makes me nervous. Since we do not really have
> > control over the library that implements g_strdup_printf, what if the
> > "can't fail" logic changes one day? This can happen deliberately or due to
> > some bug in the library. Does it not make sense to be defensive as the
> > consumer of this function and write code that is future proof?
>
> Their API spec guarantees we are safe
>
> https://docs.gtk.org/glib/func.strdup_printf.html
>
> "The returned string is guaranteed to be non-NULL, unless format contains %lc or %ls conversions, which can fail if no multibyte representation is available for the given character."
>
Ok fine but still, life is not ideal ... libraries do have bugs.
