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  57. .IX Title "ERR_PUT_ERROR 3ossl"
  58. .TH ERR_PUT_ERROR 3ossl 2025-01-17 3.4.0 OpenSSL
  59. .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
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  61. .if n .ad l
  62. .nh
  63. .SH NAME
  64. ERR_raise, ERR_raise_data,
  65. ERR_put_error, ERR_add_error_data, ERR_add_error_vdata,
  66. ERR_add_error_txt, ERR_add_error_mem_bio
  67. \&\- record an error
  68. .SH SYNOPSIS
  69. .IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
  70. .Vb 1
  71. \& #include <openssl/err.h>
  72. \&
  73. \& void ERR_raise(int lib, int reason);
  74. \& void ERR_raise_data(int lib, int reason, const char *fmt, ...);
  75. \&
  76. \& void ERR_add_error_data(int num, ...);
  77. \& void ERR_add_error_vdata(int num, va_list arg);
  78. \& void ERR_add_error_txt(const char *sep, const char *txt);
  79. \& void ERR_add_error_mem_bio(const char *sep, BIO *bio);
  80. .Ve
  81. .PP
  82. The following function has been deprecated since OpenSSL 3.0, and can be
  83. hidden entirely by defining \fBOPENSSL_API_COMPAT\fR with a suitable version value,
  84. see \fBopenssl_user_macros\fR\|(7):
  85. .PP
  86. .Vb 1
  87. \& void ERR_put_error(int lib, int func, int reason, const char *file, int line);
  88. .Ve
  89. .SH DESCRIPTION
  90. .IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
  91. \&\fBERR_raise()\fR adds a new error to the thread's error queue. The
  92. error occurred in the library \fBlib\fR for the reason given by the
  93. \&\fBreason\fR code. Furthermore, the name of the file, the line, and name
  94. of the function where the error occurred is saved with the error
  95. record.
  96. .PP
  97. \&\fBERR_raise_data()\fR does the same thing as \fBERR_raise()\fR, but also lets the
  98. caller specify additional information as a format string \fBfmt\fR and an
  99. arbitrary number of values, which are processed with \fBBIO_snprintf\fR\|(3).
  100. .PP
  101. \&\fBERR_put_error()\fR adds an error code to the thread's error queue. It
  102. signals that the error of reason code \fBreason\fR occurred in function
  103. \&\fBfunc\fR of library \fBlib\fR, in line number \fBline\fR of \fBfile\fR.
  104. This function is usually called by a macro.
  105. .PP
  106. \&\fBERR_add_error_data()\fR associates the concatenation of its \fBnum\fR string
  107. arguments as additional data with the error code added last.
  108. \&\fBERR_add_error_vdata()\fR is similar except the argument is a \fBva_list\fR.
  109. Multiple calls to these functions append to the current top of the error queue.
  110. The total length of the string data per error is limited to 4096 characters.
  111. .PP
  112. \&\fBERR_add_error_txt()\fR appends the given text string as additional data to the
  113. last error queue entry, after inserting the optional separator string if it is
  114. not NULL and the top error entry does not yet have additional data.
  115. In case the separator is at the end of the text it is not appended to the data.
  116. The \fBsep\fR argument may be for instance "\en" to insert a line break when needed.
  117. If the associated data would become more than 4096 characters long
  118. (which is the limit given above)
  119. it is split over sufficiently many new copies of the last error queue entry.
  120. .PP
  121. \&\fBERR_add_error_mem_bio()\fR is the same as \fBERR_add_error_txt()\fR except that
  122. the text string is taken from the given memory BIO.
  123. It appends '\e0' to the BIO contents if not already NUL-terminated.
  124. .PP
  125. \&\fBERR_load_strings\fR\|(3) can be used to register
  126. error strings so that the application can a generate human-readable
  127. error messages for the error code.
  128. .SS "Reporting errors"
  129. .IX Subsection "Reporting errors"
  130. \fIOpenSSL library reports\fR
  131. .IX Subsection "OpenSSL library reports"
  132. .PP
  133. Each OpenSSL sub-library has library code \fBERR_LIB_XXX\fR and has its own set
  134. of reason codes \fBXXX_R_...\fR. These are both passed in combination to
  135. \&\fBERR_raise()\fR and \fBERR_raise_data()\fR, and the combination ultimately produces
  136. the correct error text for the reported error.
  137. .PP
  138. All these macros and the numbers they have as values are specific to
  139. OpenSSL's libraries. OpenSSL reason codes normally consist of textual error
  140. descriptions. For example, the function \fBssl3_read_bytes()\fR reports a
  141. "handshake failure" as follows:
  142. .PP
  143. .Vb 1
  144. \& ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_SSL, SSL_R_SSL_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE);
  145. .Ve
  146. .PP
  147. There are two exceptions:
  148. .IP \fBERR_LIB_SYS\fR 4
  149. .IX Item "ERR_LIB_SYS"
  150. This "library code" indicates that a system error is being reported. In
  151. this case, the reason code given to \fBERR_raise()\fR and \fBERR_raise_data()\fR \fImust\fR
  152. be \fBerrno\fR\|(3).
  153. .Sp
  154. .Vb 1
  155. \& ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_SYS, errno);
  156. .Ve
  157. .IP \fBERR_R_XXX\fR 4
  158. .IX Item "ERR_R_XXX"
  159. This set of error codes is considered global, and may be used in combination
  160. with any sub-library code.
  161. .Sp
  162. .Vb 1
  163. \& ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_RSA, ERR_R_PASSED_INVALID_ARGUMENT);
  164. .Ve
  165. .PP
  166. \fIOther pieces of software\fR
  167. .IX Subsection "Other pieces of software"
  168. .PP
  169. Other pieces of software that may want to use OpenSSL's error reporting
  170. system, such as engines or applications, must normally get their own
  171. numbers.
  172. .IP \(bu 4
  173. To get a "library" code, call \fBERR_get_next_error_library\fR\|(3); this gives
  174. the calling code a dynamic number, usable for the duration of the process.
  175. .IP \(bu 4
  176. Reason codes for each such "library" are determined or generated by the
  177. authors of that code. They must be numbers in the range 1 to 524287 (in
  178. other words, they must be nonzero unsigned 18 bit integers).
  179. .PP
  180. The exceptions mentioned in "OpenSSL library reports" above are valid for
  181. other pieces of software, i.e. they may use \fBERR_LIB_SYS\fR to report system
  182. errors:
  183. .PP
  184. .Vb 1
  185. \& ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_SYS, errno);
  186. .Ve
  187. .PP
  188. \&... and they may use \fBERR_R_XXX\fR macros together with their own "library"
  189. code.
  190. .PP
  191. .Vb 1
  192. \& int app_lib_code = ERR_get_next_error_library();
  193. \&
  194. \& /* ... */
  195. \&
  196. \& ERR_raise(app_lib_code, ERR_R_PASSED_INVALID_ARGUMENT);
  197. .Ve
  198. .SH "RETURN VALUES"
  199. .IX Header "RETURN VALUES"
  200. \&\fBERR_raise()\fR, \fBERR_raise_data()\fR, \fBERR_put_error()\fR,
  201. \&\fBERR_add_error_data()\fR, \fBERR_add_error_vdata()\fR
  202. \&\fBERR_add_error_txt()\fR, and \fBERR_add_error_mem_bio()\fR
  203. return no values.
  204. .SH NOTES
  205. .IX Header "NOTES"
  206. \&\fBERR_raise()\fR, \fBERR_raise()\fR and \fBERR_put_error()\fR are implemented as macros.
  207. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  208. .IX Header "SEE ALSO"
  209. \&\fBERR_load_strings\fR\|(3), \fBERR_get_next_error_library\fR\|(3)
  210. .SH HISTORY
  211. .IX Header "HISTORY"
  212. ERR_raise, ERR_raise_data, \fBERR_add_error_txt()\fR and \fBERR_add_error_mem_bio()\fR
  213. were added in OpenSSL 3.0.
  214. .SH COPYRIGHT
  215. .IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
  216. Copyright 2000\-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
  217. .PP
  218. Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
  219. this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
  220. in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
  221. <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.