[libvirt] [PATCH 06/10] virRandomBytes: Report error

[Michal Privoznik]

Instead of having each caller report error move it into the
function. This way we can produce more accurate error messages
too.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 src/util/vircrypto.c |  6 ++----
 src/util/virrandom.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/vircrypto.c b/src/util/vircrypto.c
index 673e1648e8..e5f2319720 100644
--- a/src/util/vircrypto.c
+++ b/src/util/vircrypto.c
@@ -330,9 +330,9 @@ int
 virCryptoGenerateRandom(unsigned char *buf,
                         size_t buflen)
 {
+#if WITH_GNUTLS
     int rv;
 
-#if WITH_GNUTLS
     /* Generate the byte stream using gnutls_rnd() if possible */
     if ((rv = gnutls_rnd(GNUTLS_RND_RANDOM, buf, buflen)) < 0) {
         virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
@@ -344,10 +344,8 @@ virCryptoGenerateRandom(unsigned char *buf,
     /* If we don't have gnutls_rnd(), we will generate a less cryptographically
      * strong master buf from /dev/urandom.
      */
-    if ((rv = virRandomBytes(buf, buflen)) < 0) {
-        virReportSystemError(-rv, "%s", _("failed to generate byte stream"));
+    if (virRandomBytes(buf, buflen) < 0)
         return -1;
-    }
 #endif
 
     return 0;
diff --git a/src/util/virrandom.c b/src/util/virrandom.c
index ea55fe654d..230745d311 100644
--- a/src/util/virrandom.c
+++ b/src/util/virrandom.c
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 
 VIR_LOG_INIT("util.random");
 
+#define RANDOM_SOURCE "/dev/urandom"
+
 /* The algorithm of virRandomBits relies on gnulib's guarantee that
  * 'random_r' matches the POSIX requirements on 'random' of being
  * evenly distributed among exactly [0, 2**31) (that is, we always get
@@ -107,7 +109,6 @@ uint64_t virRandomBits(int nbits)
     if (virRandomInitialize() < 0) {
         /* You're already hosed, so this particular non-random value
          * isn't any worse.  */
-        VIR_WARN("random number generation is broken");
         return 0;
     }
 
@@ -165,10 +166,10 @@ uint32_t virRandomInt(uint32_t max)
  * @buf: Pointer to location to store bytes
  * @buflen: Number of bytes to store
  *
- * Generate a stream of random bytes from /dev/urandom
+ * Generate a stream of random bytes from RANDOM_SOURCE
  * into @buf of size @buflen
  *
- * Returns 0 on success or an -errno on failure
+ * Returns 0 on success or -1 (with error reported)
  */
 int
 virRandomBytes(unsigned char *buf,
@@ -176,13 +177,20 @@ virRandomBytes(unsigned char *buf,
 {
     int fd;
 
-    if ((fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY)) < 0)
-        return -errno;
+    if ((fd = open(RANDOM_SOURCE, O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
+        virReportSystemError(errno,
+                             _("unable to open %s"),
+                             RANDOM_SOURCE);
+        return -1;
+    }
 
     while (buflen > 0) {
         ssize_t n;
 
         if ((n = saferead(fd, buf, buflen)) <= 0) {
+            virReportSystemError(errno,
+                                 _("unable to read from %s"),
+                                 RANDOM_SOURCE);
             VIR_FORCE_CLOSE(fd);
             return n < 0 ? -errno : -ENODATA;
         }
-- 
2.16.1