From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>, passt-dev@passt.top
Cc: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 09/18] pesto, log: Share log.h (but not log.c) with pesto tool
Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 11:49:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <db795e62-599f-4baa-80ba-1a57642f7122@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260503215601.823029-10-sbrivio@redhat.com>
On 5/3/26 23:55, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>
> In pesto we're going to want several levels of error/warning messages, much
> like passt itself. Particularly as we start to share mode code between
> passt and pesto, we want to use a similar interface to emit those. However
> we don't want to use the same implementation - logging to a file or syslog
> doesn't make sense for the command line tool.
>
> To accomplish this loosely share log.h, but not log.c between pesto and
> passt. In fact, an #ifdef means even most of log.h isn't actually shared,
> but we do provide similar warn(), die() etc. macros.
>
> This includes the *_perror() variants, which need strerror(). However,
> we want to avoid allocations for pesto as we do for passt, and strerror()
> allocates in some libc versions. Therefore, also move our workaround for
> this to be shared with pesto.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
> [dwg: Based on changes part of a larger patch by Stefano]
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
One little nit below
> ---
> Makefile | 6 +++++-
> common.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> log.h | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> pesto.c | 14 ++++----------
> util.h | 32 ------------------------------
> 5 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 030681b..f6cec8a 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ PASST_HEADERS = arch.h arp.h bitmap.h checksum.h common.h conf.h dhcp.h \
> vhost_user.h virtio.h vu_common.h
> QRAP_HEADERS = arp.h ip.h passt.h util.h
> PASST_REPAIR_HEADERS = linux_dep.h
> -PESTO_HEADERS = common.h pesto.h
> +PESTO_HEADERS = common.h pesto.h log.h
>
> C := \#include <sys/random.h>\nint main(){int a=getrandom(0, 0, 0);}
> ifeq ($(shell printf "$(C)" | $(CC) -S -xc - -o - >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $$?),0)
> @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ qrap: $(QRAP_SRCS) $(QRAP_HEADERS)
>
> passt-repair: $(PASST_REPAIR_SRCS) $(PASST_REPAIR_HEADERS) seccomp_repair.h
>
> +pesto: BASE_CPPFLAGS += -DPESTO
> pesto: $(PESTO_SRCS) $(PESTO_HEADERS) seccomp_pesto.h
>
> valgrind: EXTRA_SYSCALLS += rt_sigprocmask rt_sigtimedwait rt_sigaction \
> @@ -221,9 +222,12 @@ cppcheck: passt.cppcheck passt-repair.cppcheck pesto.cppcheck qrap.cppcheck
> %.cppcheck:
> $(CPPCHECK) $(CPPCHECK_FLAGS) $(BASE_CPPFLAGS) $^
>
> +passt.cppcheck: BASE_CPPFLAGS += -UPESTO
> passt.cppcheck: $(PASST_SRCS) $(PASST_HEADERS) seccomp.h
> +
> passt-repair.cppcheck: $(PASST_REPAIR_SRCS) $(PASST_REPAIR_HEADERS) seccomp_repair.h
>
> +pesto.cppcheck: BASE_CPPFLAGS += -DPESTO
> pesto.cppcheck: CPPCHECK_FLAGS += --suppress=unmatchedSuppression
> pesto.cppcheck: $(PESTO_SRCS) $(PESTO_HEADERS) seccomp_pesto.h
>
> diff --git a/common.h b/common.h
> index a9c115a..2f2e6f1 100644
> --- a/common.h
> +++ b/common.h
> @@ -21,4 +21,36 @@
> /* FPRINTF() intentionally silences cert-err33-c clang-tidy warnings */
> #define FPRINTF(f, ...) (void)fprintf(f, __VA_ARGS__)
>
> +/*
> + * Starting from glibc 2.40.9000 and commit 25a5eb4010df ("string: strerror,
> + * strsignal cannot use buffer after dlmopen (bug 32026)"), strerror() needs
> + * getrandom(2) and brk(2) as it allocates memory for the locale-translated
> + * error description, but our seccomp profiles forbid both.
> + *
> + * Use the strerror_() wrapper instead, calling into strerrordesc_np() to get
> + * a static untranslated string. It's a GNU implementation, but also defined by
> + * bionic.
> + *
> + * If strerrordesc_np() is not defined (e.g. musl), call strerror(). C libraries
> + * not defining strerrordesc_np() are expected to provide strerror()
> + * implementations that are simple enough for us to call.
> + */
> +__attribute__ ((weak)) const char *strerrordesc_np(int errnum);
> +
> +/**
> + * strerror_() - strerror() wrapper calling strerrordesc_np() if available
> + * @errnum: Error code
> + *
> + * Return: error description string
> + */
> +static inline const char *strerror_(int errnum)
> +{
> + if (strerrordesc_np)
> + return strerrordesc_np(errnum);
> +
> + return strerror(errnum);
> +}
> +
> +#define strerror(x) @ "Don't call strerror() directly, use strerror_() instead"
> +
> #endif /* _COMMON_H */
> diff --git a/log.h b/log.h
> index dbab006..1058ca5 100644
> --- a/log.h
> +++ b/log.h
> @@ -6,8 +6,63 @@
> #ifndef LOG_H
> #define LOG_H
>
> -#include <stdarg.h>
> #include <stdbool.h>
> +#include <stdio.h>
> +#include <stdlib.h>
> +
> +#ifdef PESTO
> +
> +#include <errno.h>
> +
> +#include "common.h"
> +
> +extern bool debug_flag;
> +
> +#define msg(...) \
> + do { \
> + FPRINTF(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); \
> + FPRINTF(stderr, "\n"); \
> + } while (0)
> +
> +#define msg_perror(...) \
> + do { \
> + int errno_ = errno; \
> + FPRINTF(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); \
> + FPRINTF(stderr, ": %s\n", strerror_(errno_)); \
> + } while (0)
> +
> +#define die(...) \
> + do { \
> + msg(__VA_ARGS__); \
> + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \
> + } while (0)
> +
> +#define die_perror(...) \
> + do { \
> + msg_perror(__VA_ARGS__); \
> + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \
> + } while (0)
> +
> +#define warn(...) msg(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define warn_perror(...) msg_perror(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define info(...) msg(__VA_ARGS__)
> +#define info_perror(...) msg_perror(__VA_ARGS__)
> +
> +#define debug(...) \
> + do { \
> + if (debug_flag) \
> + msg(__VA_ARGS__); \
> + } while (0)
> +
> +#define debug_perror_(...) \
Why is this "debug_perror_()" and not "debug_perror()"?
> + do { \
> + if (debug_flag) \
> + msg_perror(__VA_ARGS__); \
> + } while (0)
> +
> +#else /* !PESTO */
> +
> +#include <stdarg.h>
> #include <stddef.h>
> #include <syslog.h>
>
> @@ -109,4 +164,6 @@ void __openlog(const char *ident, int option, int facility);
> void logfile_init(const char *name, const char *path, size_t size);
> void __setlogmask(int mask);
>
> +#endif /* !PESTO */
> +
> #endif /* LOG_H */
> diff --git a/pesto.c b/pesto.c
> index 9f2fa5d..f0916e8 100644
> --- a/pesto.c
> +++ b/pesto.c
> @@ -34,18 +34,12 @@
> #include "common.h"
> #include "seccomp_pesto.h"
> #include "pesto.h"
> +#include "log.h"
>
> -static bool debug_flag = false;
> +bool debug_flag = false;
>
> static char stdout_buf[BUFSIZ];
>
> -#define die(...) \
> - do { \
> - FPRINTF(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); \
> - FPRINTF(stderr, "\n"); \
> - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \
> - } while (0)
> -
> /**
> * usage() - Print usage, exit with given status code
> * @name: Executable name
> @@ -99,7 +93,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> * breaking our seccomp profile.
> */
> if (setvbuf(stdout, stdout_buf, _IOFBF, sizeof(stdout_buf)))
> - die("Failed to set stdout buffer");
> + die_perror("Failed to set stdout buffer");
>
> do {
> optname = getopt_long(argc, argv, optstring, options, NULL);
> @@ -126,7 +120,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> if (argc - optind != 1)
> usage(argv[0], stderr, EXIT_FAILURE);
>
> - printf("debug_flag=%d, path=\"%s\"\n", debug_flag, argv[optind]);
> + debug("debug_flag=%d, path=\"%s\"", debug_flag, argv[optind]);
>
> die("pesto is not implemented yet");
> }
> diff --git a/util.h b/util.h
> index 770ff93..e90be47 100644
> --- a/util.h
> +++ b/util.h
> @@ -302,38 +302,6 @@ static inline bool mod_between(unsigned x, unsigned i, unsigned j, unsigned m)
>
> void raw_random(void *buf, size_t buflen);
>
> -/*
> - * Starting from glibc 2.40.9000 and commit 25a5eb4010df ("string: strerror,
> - * strsignal cannot use buffer after dlmopen (bug 32026)"), strerror() needs
> - * getrandom(2) and brk(2) as it allocates memory for the locale-translated
> - * error description, but our seccomp profiles forbid both.
> - *
> - * Use the strerror_() wrapper instead, calling into strerrordesc_np() to get
> - * a static untranslated string. It's a GNU implementation, but also defined by
> - * bionic.
> - *
> - * If strerrordesc_np() is not defined (e.g. musl), call strerror(). C libraries
> - * not defining strerrordesc_np() are expected to provide strerror()
> - * implementations that are simple enough for us to call.
> - */
> -__attribute__ ((weak)) const char *strerrordesc_np(int errnum);
> -
> -/**
> - * strerror_() - strerror() wrapper calling strerrordesc_np() if available
> - * @errnum: Error code
> - *
> - * Return: error description string
> - */
> -static inline const char *strerror_(int errnum)
> -{
> - if (strerrordesc_np)
> - return strerrordesc_np(errnum);
> -
> - return strerror(errnum);
> -}
> -
> -#define strerror(x) @ "Don't call strerror() directly, use strerror_() instead"
> -
> /*
> * Workarounds for https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/58992
> *
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-04 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-03 21:55 [PATCH v6 00/18] Dynamic configuration update implementation Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 01/18] conf, fwd: Stricter rule checking in fwd_rule_add() Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 8:38 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 02/18] fwd_rule: Move ephemeral port probing to fwd_rule.c Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 03/18] fwd, conf: Move rule parsing code to fwd_rule.[ch] Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 04/18] fwd_rule: Move conflict checking back within fwd_rule_add() Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 05/18] fwd: Generalise fwd_rules_info() Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 06/18] pif: Limit pif names to 128 bytes Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 9:12 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 07/18] fwd_rule: Fix some format specifiers Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 9:59 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 08/18] pesto: Introduce stub configuration tool Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 10:51 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 09/18] pesto, log: Share log.h (but not log.c) with pesto tool Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 9:49 ` Laurent Vivier [this message]
2026-05-04 23:11 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 10/18] pesto, conf: Have pesto connect to passt and check versions Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 12:01 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 12:13 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 11/18] pesto: Expose list of pifs to pesto and optionally display Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 14:34 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 12/18] ip: Prepare ip.[ch] for sharing with pesto tool Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 14:52 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 13/18] inany: Prepare inany.[ch] " Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 15:37 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 14/18] pesto: Read current ruleset from passt/pasta and optionally display it Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 16:10 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:11 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 15/18] pesto: Parse and add new rules from command line Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 16:44 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:11 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 23:18 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 16/18] pesto, conf: Send updated rules from pesto back to passt/pasta Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 17/18] conf, fwd: Allow switching to new rules received from pesto Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 18/18] fwd_rule: Fix static checkers warnings in fwd_rule_add() Stefano Brivio
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