[tor-commits] [tor/master] Check more error codes when writing microdescriptors.

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commit 6905c1f60d2d0e658481df70fdcaa73251becacc
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Mar 11 14:50:41 2013 -0400

    Check more error codes when writing microdescriptors.
    
    Possible partial fix, or diagnosis tool, for bug 8031.
---
 changes/bug8031    |    7 +++++++
 src/or/microdesc.c |   18 ++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/changes/bug8031 b/changes/bug8031
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17329ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug8031
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes:
+    - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
+      caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
+      less common.
+    - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
+      microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitegate bug 8031,
+      or at least make it more diagnosable.
diff --git a/src/or/microdesc.c b/src/or/microdesc.c
index 0a9724f..7d3f631 100644
--- a/src/or/microdesc.c
+++ b/src/or/microdesc.c
@@ -251,8 +251,14 @@ microdescs_add_list_to_cache(microdesc_cache_t *cache,
     cache->total_len_seen += md->bodylen;
   } SMARTLIST_FOREACH_END(md);
 
-  if (fd >= 0)
-    finish_writing_to_file(open_file); /*XXX Check me.*/
+  if (fd >= 0) {
+    if (finish_writing_to_file(open_file) < 0) {
+      log_warn(LD_DIR, "Error appending to microdescriptor file: %s",
+               strerror(errno));
+      smartlist_clear(added);
+      return added;
+    }
+  }
 
   {
     networkstatus_t *ns = networkstatus_get_latest_consensus();
@@ -459,11 +465,15 @@ microdesc_cache_rebuild(microdesc_cache_t *cache, int force)
     smartlist_add(wrote, md);
   }
 
+  if (finish_writing_to_file(open_file) < 0) {
+    log_warn(LD_DIR, "Error rebuilding microdescriptor cache: %s",
+             strerror(errno));
+    return -1;
+  }
+
   if (cache->cache_content)
     tor_munmap_file(cache->cache_content);
 
-  finish_writing_to_file(open_file); /*XXX Check me.*/
-
   cache->cache_content = tor_mmap_file(cache->cache_fname);
 
   if (!cache->cache_content && smartlist_len(wrote)) {



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