This is a small improvement in libbpf_strerror. When libbpf_strerror
is used to obtain the system error description, if the length of the
buf is insufficient, libbpf_sterror returns ERANGE and sets errno to
ERANGE.

However, this processing is not performed when the error code
customized by libbpf is obtained. Make some minor improvements here,
return -ERANGE and set errno to ERANGE when buf is not enough for
custom description.

Signed-off-by: Xin Liu <liuxin350@huawei.com>
---

v3:
Simplify the code and remove the processing that snprintf returns
negative numbers.

v2:
Check the return value of snprintf to determine whether the buffer is
too small.
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221209110502.231677-1-liuxin350@huawei.com/T/#t

v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221209084047.229525-1-liuxin350@huawei.com/T/#t

 tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_errno.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_errno.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_errno.c
index 96f67a772a1b..71da6e5e70da 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_errno.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_errno.c
@@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ static const char *libbpf_strerror_table[NR_ERRNO] = {
 
 int libbpf_strerror(int err, char *buf, size_t size)
 {
+	int ret;
+
 	if (!buf || !size)
 		return libbpf_err(-EINVAL);
 
 	err = err > 0 ? err : -err;
 
 	if (err < __LIBBPF_ERRNO__START) {
-		int ret;
-
 		ret = strerror_r(err, buf, size);
 		buf[size - 1] = '\0';
 		return libbpf_err_errno(ret);
@@ -56,12 +56,20 @@ int libbpf_strerror(int err, char *buf, size_t size)
 		const char *msg;
 
 		msg = libbpf_strerror_table[ERRNO_OFFSET(err)];
-		snprintf(buf, size, "%s", msg);
+		ret = snprintf(buf, size, "%s", msg);
 		buf[size - 1] = '\0';
+		/* The length of the buf and msg is positive.
+		 * A negative number may be returned only when the
+		 * size exceeds INT_MAX. Not likely to appear.
+		 */
+		if (ret >= size)
+			return libbpf_err(-ERANGE);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	snprintf(buf, size, "Unknown libbpf error %d", err);
+	ret = snprintf(buf, size, "Unknown libbpf error %d", err);
 	buf[size - 1] = '\0';
+	if (ret >= size)
+		return libbpf_err(-ERANGE);
 	return libbpf_err(-ENOENT);
 }
-- 
2.33.0

Hello:

This patch was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
by Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:20:45 +0800 you wrote:
> This is a small improvement in libbpf_strerror. When libbpf_strerror
> is used to obtain the system error description, if the length of the
> buf is insufficient, libbpf_sterror returns ERANGE and sets errno to
> ERANGE.
> 
> However, this processing is not performed when the error code
> customized by libbpf is obtained. Make some minor improvements here,
> return -ERANGE and set errno to ERANGE when buf is not enough for
> custom description.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [bpf-next,v3] libbpf: Optimized return value in libbpf_strerror when errno is libbpf errno
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/c2614f627941

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