[Git][ghc/ghc][wip/T24344] base: Use strerror_r

Ben Gamari (@bgamari) gitlab at gitlab.haskell.org
Fri Jan 26 00:15:16 UTC 2024



Ben Gamari pushed to branch wip/T24344 at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC


Commits:
a61ce145 by Ben Gamari at 2024-01-25T19:14:56-05:00
base: Use strerror_r

As noted by #24344, `strerror` is not necessarily thread-safe.
Thankfully, POSIX.1-2001 has long offered `strerror_r`, which is
safe to use.

Fixes #24344.

- - - - -


2 changed files:

- + libraries/base/cbits/strerror.c
- libraries/base/src/Foreign/C/Error.hs


Changes:

=====================================
libraries/base/cbits/strerror.c
=====================================
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+// glibc will only expose the POSIX strerror_r if this is defined.
+#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+int base_strerror_r(int errnum, char *ptr, size_t buflen)
+{
+    return strerror_r(errnum, ptr, buflen);
+}


=====================================
libraries/base/src/Foreign/C/Error.hs
=====================================
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ module Foreign.C.Error (
 #include "HsBaseConfig.h"
 
 import Foreign.Ptr
+import Foreign.Marshal.Alloc
 import Foreign.C.Types
 import Foreign.C.String
 import Data.Functor            ( void )
@@ -460,6 +461,20 @@ throwErrnoPathIfMinus1_  = throwErrnoPathIf_ (== -1)
 -- conversion of an "errno" value into IO error
 -- --------------------------------------------
 
+foreign import ccall "base_strerror_r"
+    c_strerror_r :: CInt -> Ptr CChar -> CSize -> IO CInt
+
+errnoToString :: Errno -> IO String
+errnoToString errno =
+    allocaBytes len $ \ptr -> do
+        ret <- c_strerror_r errno ptr len
+        if ret /= 0
+          then return "errnoToString failed"
+          else peekCString ptr
+  where
+    len :: Num a => a
+    len = 512
+
 -- | Construct an 'IOError' based on the given 'Errno' value.
 -- The optional information can be used to improve the accuracy of
 -- error messages.
@@ -470,7 +485,7 @@ errnoToIOError  :: String       -- ^ the location where the error occurred
                 -> Maybe String -- ^ optional filename associated with the error
                 -> IOError
 errnoToIOError loc errno maybeHdl maybeName = unsafePerformIO $ do
-    str <- strerror errno >>= peekCString
+    str <- errnoToString errno
     return (IOError maybeHdl errType loc str (Just errno') maybeName)
     where
     Errno errno' = errno
@@ -576,5 +591,3 @@ errnoToIOError loc errno maybeHdl maybeName = unsafePerformIO $ do
         | errno == eXDEV           = UnsupportedOperation
         | otherwise                = OtherError
 
-foreign import ccall unsafe "string.h" strerror :: Errno -> IO (Ptr CChar)
-



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