Re: [PATCH] util: rework error reporting in virGet(User|Group)IDByName

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On 11.12.2012 21:30, Peter Krempa wrote:
> This patch gets rid of the undeterministic error reporting code done on
> return values of get(pw|gr)nam_r. With this patch, if the group record
> is not returned by the corresponding function this error is not
> considered fatal even if errno != 0. The error is logged in such case.
> ---
>  src/util/util.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/util/util.c b/src/util/util.c
> index 3f244f5..27af3c6 100644
> --- a/src/util/util.c
> +++ b/src/util/util.c
> @@ -2530,23 +2530,16 @@ virGetUserIDByName(const char *name, uid_t *uid)
>          }
>      }
> 
> -    if (rc != 0) {
> -       /* We explicitly test for the known error values returned by
> -        * getpwnam_r as the manpage says:
> -        * ERRORS
> -        *   0 or ENOENT or ESRCH or EBADF or EPERM or ...
> -        *         The given name or uid was not found.
> -        */
> -       if ((rc == EINTR) || (rc == EIO) || (rc == EMFILE) ||
> -           (rc == ENFILE) || (rc == ENOMEM)) {
> -           virReportSystemError(rc, _("Failed to get user record for name '%s'"),
> -                                name);
> -           goto cleanup;
> -       }
> -    }
> -
>      if (!pw) {
> -        VIR_DEBUG("User record for user '%s' does not exist", name);
> +        if (rc != 0) {
> +            char buf[1024];
> +            /* log the possible error from getpwnam_r. Unfortunately error
> +             * reporting from this function is bad and we can't really
> +             * rely on it, so we just report that the user wasn't found */
> +            VIR_WARN("User record for user '%s' does was not found: %s",
> +                     name, virStrerror(rc, buf, sizeof(buf)));
> +        }
> +
>          ret = 1;
>          goto cleanup;
>      }
> @@ -2621,23 +2614,16 @@ virGetGroupIDByName(const char *name, gid_t *gid)
>          }
>      }
> 
> -    if (rc != 0) {
> -       /* We explicitly test for the known error values returned by
> -        * getgrnam_r as the manpage says:
> -        * ERRORS
> -        *   0 or ENOENT or ESRCH or EBADF or EPERM or ...
> -        *         The given name or gid was not found.
> -        */
> -       if ((rc == EINTR) || (rc == EIO) || (rc == EMFILE) ||
> -           (rc == ENFILE) || (rc == ENOMEM)) {
> -           virReportSystemError(rc, _("Failed to get group record for name '%s'"),
> -                                name);
> -           goto cleanup;
> -       }
> -    }
> -
>      if (!gr) {
> -        VIR_DEBUG("Group record for group '%s' does not exist", name);
> +        if (rc != 0) {
> +            char buf[1024];
> +            /* log the possible error from getgrnam_r. Unfortunately error
> +             * reporting from this function is bad and we can't really
> +             * rely on it, so we just report that the user wasn't found */
> +            VIR_WARN("Group record for user '%s' does was not found: %s",
> +                     name, virStrerror(rc, buf, sizeof(buf)));
> +        }
> +
>          ret = 1;
>          goto cleanup;
>      }
> 

ACK

I think this is the version we were looking for.

Michal

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