[PATCH v3] gettext.c: detect the vsnprintf bug at runtime
- From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
- Date
- Dec 1, 2013, 02:45 UTC
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- <1385865938-16392-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>
- In-Reply-To
- <1385812884-23776-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>
Bug 6530 [1] in glibc causes "git show v0.99.6~1" to fail with error "your vsnprintf is broken". The workaround avoids that, but it corrupts system error messages in non-C locales.
The bug has been fixed since 2.17. We could know running glibc version with gnu_get_libc_version(). But version is not a sure way to detect the bug because downstream may back port the fix to older versions. Do a runtime test that immitates the call flow that leads to "your vsnprintf is broken". Only enable the workaround if the test fails.
Tested on Gentoo Linux, glibc 2.16.0 and 2.17, amd64.
[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6530
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> --- v3 goes with runtime test instead of version check.
gettext.c | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gettext.c b/gettext.c index 71e9545..eed7c7f 100644 --- a/gettext.c +++ b/gettext.c @@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ int use_gettext_poison(void) #endif #ifndef NO_GETTEXT +static int test_vsnprintf(const char *fmt, ...) +{ + char buf[26]; + int ret; + va_list ap; + va_start(ap, fmt); + ret = vsnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, ap); + va_end(ap); + return ret; +} + static const char *charset; static void init_gettext_charset(const char *domain) { @@ -99,9 +110,7 @@ static void init_gettext_charset(const char *domain) $ LANGUAGE= LANG=de_DE.utf8 ./test test: Kein passendes Ger?t gefunden - In the long term we should probably see about getting that - vsnprintf bug in glibc fixed, and audit our code so it won't - fall apart under a non-C locale. + The vsnprintf bug has been fixed since glibc 2.17. Then we could simply set LC_CTYPE from the environment, which would make things like the external perror(3) messages work. @@ -115,7 +124,9 @@ static void init_gettext_charset(const char *domain) setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""); charset = locale_charset(); bind_textdomain_codeset(domain, charset); - setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C"); + /* the string is taken from v0.99.6~1 */ + if (test_vsnprintf("%.*s", 13, "David_K\345gedal") < 0) + setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C"); } void git_setup_gettext(void)
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