1=pod 2 3=for openssl foreign manual errno(3) 4 5=head1 NAME 6 7ERR_raise, ERR_raise_data, 8ERR_put_error, ERR_add_error_data, ERR_add_error_vdata, 9ERR_add_error_txt, ERR_add_error_mem_bio 10- record an error 11 12=head1 SYNOPSIS 13 14 #include <openssl/err.h> 15 16 void ERR_raise(int lib, int reason); 17 void ERR_raise_data(int lib, int reason, const char *fmt, ...); 18 19 void ERR_add_error_data(int num, ...); 20 void ERR_add_error_vdata(int num, va_list arg); 21 void ERR_add_error_txt(const char *sep, const char *txt); 22 void ERR_add_error_mem_bio(const char *sep, BIO *bio); 23 24The following function has been deprecated since OpenSSL 3.0, and can be 25hidden entirely by defining B<OPENSSL_API_COMPAT> with a suitable version value, 26see L<openssl_user_macros(7)>: 27 28 void ERR_put_error(int lib, int func, int reason, const char *file, int line); 29 30=head1 DESCRIPTION 31 32ERR_raise() adds a new error to the thread's error queue. The 33error occurred in the library B<lib> for the reason given by the 34B<reason> code. Furthermore, the name of the file, the line, and name 35of the function where the error occurred is saved with the error 36record. 37 38ERR_raise_data() does the same thing as ERR_raise(), but also lets the 39caller specify additional information as a format string B<fmt> and an 40arbitrary number of values, which are processed with L<BIO_snprintf(3)>. 41 42ERR_put_error() adds an error code to the thread's error queue. It 43signals that the error of reason code B<reason> occurred in function 44B<func> of library B<lib>, in line number B<line> of B<file>. 45This function is usually called by a macro. 46 47ERR_add_error_data() associates the concatenation of its B<num> string 48arguments as additional data with the error code added last. 49ERR_add_error_vdata() is similar except the argument is a B<va_list>. 50Multiple calls to these functions append to the current top of the error queue. 51The total length of the string data per error is limited to 4096 characters. 52 53ERR_add_error_txt() appends the given text string as additional data to the 54last error queue entry, after inserting the optional separator string if it is 55not NULL and the top error entry does not yet have additional data. 56In case the separator is at the end of the text it is not appended to the data. 57The B<sep> argument may be for instance "\n" to insert a line break when needed. 58If the associated data would become more than 4096 characters long 59(which is the limit given above) 60it is split over sufficiently many new copies of the last error queue entry. 61 62ERR_add_error_mem_bio() is the same as ERR_add_error_txt() except that 63the text string is taken from the given memory BIO. 64It appends '\0' to the BIO contents if not already NUL-terminated. 65 66L<ERR_load_strings(3)> can be used to register 67error strings so that the application can a generate human-readable 68error messages for the error code. 69 70=head2 Reporting errors 71 72=head3 OpenSSL library reports 73 74Each OpenSSL sub-library has library code B<ERR_LIB_XXX> and has its own set 75of reason codes B<XXX_R_...>. These are both passed in combination to 76ERR_raise() and ERR_raise_data(), and the combination ultimately produces 77the correct error text for the reported error. 78 79All these macros and the numbers they have as values are specific to 80OpenSSL's libraries. OpenSSL reason codes normally consist of textual error 81descriptions. For example, the function ssl3_read_bytes() reports a 82"handshake failure" as follows: 83 84 ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_SSL, SSL_R_SSL_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE); 85 86There are two exceptions: 87 88=over 4 89 90=item B<ERR_LIB_SYS> 91 92This "library code" indicates that a system error is being reported. In 93this case, the reason code given to ERR_raise() and ERR_raise_data() I<must> 94be L<errno(3)>. 95 96 ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_SYS, errno); 97 98=item B<ERR_R_XXX> 99 100This set of error codes is considered global, and may be used in combination 101with any sub-library code. 102 103 ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_RSA, ERR_R_PASSED_INVALID_ARGUMENT); 104 105=back 106 107=head3 Other pieces of software 108 109Other pieces of software that may want to use OpenSSL's error reporting 110system, such as engines or applications, must normally get their own 111numbers. 112 113=over 4 114 115=item * 116 117To get a "library" code, call L<ERR_get_next_error_library(3)>; this gives 118the calling code a dynamic number, usable for the duration of the process. 119 120=item * 121 122Reason codes for each such "library" are determined or generated by the 123authors of that code. They must be numbers in the range 1 to 524287 (in 124other words, they must be nonzero unsigned 18 bit integers). 125 126=back 127 128The exceptions mentioned in L</OpenSSL library reports> above are valid for 129other pieces of software, i.e. they may use B<ERR_LIB_SYS> to report system 130errors: 131 132 ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_SYS, errno); 133 134... and they may use B<ERR_R_XXX> macros together with their own "library" 135code. 136 137 int app_lib_code = ERR_get_next_error_library(); 138 139 /* ... */ 140 141 ERR_raise(app_lib_code, ERR_R_PASSED_INVALID_ARGUMENT); 142 143=begin comment 144 145[These are OpenSSL specific recommendations] 146 147Reason codes should consist of uppercase characters, numbers and underscores 148only. The error file generation script translates the trailing section of a 149reason code (after the "_R_") into lowercase with underscores changed to 150spaces. 151 152Although a library will normally report errors using its own specific 153B<ERR_LIB_XXX> macro, another library's macro can be used, together with 154that other library's reason codes. This is normally only done when a library 155wants to include ASN1 code which must be combined with B<ERR_LIB_ASN1> 156macro. 157 158=end comment 159 160=head1 RETURN VALUES 161 162ERR_raise(), ERR_raise_data(), ERR_put_error(), 163ERR_add_error_data(), ERR_add_error_vdata() 164ERR_add_error_txt(), and ERR_add_error_mem_bio() 165return no values. 166 167=head1 NOTES 168 169ERR_raise(), ERR_raise() and ERR_put_error() are implemented as macros. 170 171=head1 SEE ALSO 172 173L<ERR_load_strings(3)>, L<ERR_get_next_error_library(3)> 174 175=head1 HISTORY 176 177ERR_raise, ERR_raise_data, ERR_add_error_txt() and ERR_add_error_mem_bio() 178were added in OpenSSL 3.0. 179 180=head1 COPYRIGHT 181 182Copyright 2000-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. 183 184Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use 185this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy 186in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at 187L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>. 188 189=cut 190
