Change in ...libosmocore[master]: logging: Use reentrant ctime_r instead of ctime

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Wed Jun 12 14:23:51 UTC 2019


pespin has uploaded this change for review. ( https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/libosmocore/+/14429


Change subject: logging: Use reentrant ctime_r instead of ctime
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logging: Use reentrant ctime_r instead of ctime

It was noticed that multithreaded processes like osmo-trx can crash upon
using ctime().

Related: OS#4055
Change-Id: I19ebf29a2f1fc855bb7d56766b338c7c3432dfd1
---
M src/logging.c
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)



  git pull ssh://gerrit.osmocom.org:29418/libosmocore refs/changes/29/14429/1

diff --git a/src/logging.c b/src/logging.c
index 73a9c52..b8960f9 100644
--- a/src/logging.c
+++ b/src/logging.c
@@ -359,12 +359,15 @@
 			OSMO_SNPRINTF_RET(ret, rem, offset, len);
 #endif
 		} else if (target->print_timestamp) {
-			char *timestr;
+			/* man ctime: user-supplied buffer should have room for at least 26 bytes */
+			char ctime_buf[26];
 			time_t tm;
 			tm = time(NULL);
-			timestr = ctime(&tm);
-			timestr[strlen(timestr)-1] = '\0';
-			ret = snprintf(buf + offset, rem, "%s ", timestr);
+			if (!ctime_r(&tm, ctime_buf))
+				goto err;
+			/* Remove new line char atthe end added by ctime */
+			ctime_buf[strlen(ctime_buf)-1] = '\0';
+			ret = snprintf(buf + offset, rem, "%s ", ctime_buf);
 			if (ret < 0)
 				goto err;
 			OSMO_SNPRINTF_RET(ret, rem, offset, len);

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Gerrit-Change-Id: I19ebf29a2f1fc855bb7d56766b338c7c3432dfd1
Gerrit-Change-Number: 14429
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