mgr: fixes python error handling

The current `handle_pyerror` function implementation relies in the
`traceback.format_exception_only` python function to format the
exception object. The problem is that this python function might also
raise an exception. This commit fixes it by enclosing that python
function call in try...catch block.

Fixes: http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/23406
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Dias <rdias@suse.com>

diff --git a/src/mgr/PyModule.cc b/src/mgr/PyModule.cc
index fcb0b8107679fb06b6478526d4ca2374a2a95e3c..e2e96ea342dc67f66bafe6a59e581a68ab9ccb15 100644 (file)
--- a/src/mgr/PyModule.cc
+++ b/src/mgr/PyModule.cc
@@ -40,10 +40,30 @@ std::string handle_pyerror()
     object traceback(import("traceback"));
     if (!tb) {
         object format_exception_only(traceback.attr("format_exception_only"));
-        formatted_list = format_exception_only(hexc, hval);
+        try {
+          formatted_list = format_exception_only(hexc, hval);
+        } catch (error_already_set const &) {
+          // error while processing exception object
+          // returning only the exception string value
+          PyObject *name_attr = PyObject_GetAttrString(exc, "__name__");
+          std::stringstream ss;
+          ss << PyString_AsString(name_attr) << ": " << PyString_AsString(val);
+          Py_XDECREF(name_attr);
+          return ss.str();
+        }
     } else {
         object format_exception(traceback.attr("format_exception"));
-        formatted_list = format_exception(hexc,hval, htb);
+        try {
+          formatted_list = format_exception(hexc, hval, htb);
+        } catch (error_already_set const &) {
+          // error while processing exception object
+          // returning only the exception string value
+          PyObject *name_attr = PyObject_GetAttrString(exc, "__name__");
+          std::stringstream ss;
+          ss << PyString_AsString(name_attr) << ": " << PyString_AsString(val);
+          Py_XDECREF(name_attr);
+          return ss.str();
+        }
     }
     formatted = str("").join(formatted_list);
     return extract<std::string>(formatted);