Add option to make exception format errors fatal.

Adds a new fatal_exception_format_errors config option which
defaults to False. This option is use to control how the base
NovaException class handles errors which can occur when it
formats error messages.

The motivation for this change is to be able to enable exception
format checking in our tests by setting
fatal_exception_format_errors=True.

Change-Id: Ie96261ed96bcede4a2b5ec5600cb93c15141a800

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/nova/exception.py b/nova/exception.py
index 10349f3869..b4d39bce03 100644
--- a/nova/exception.py
+++ b/nova/exception.py
@@ -29,11 +29,21 @@ import itertools
 
 import webob.exc
 
+from nova.openstack.common import cfg
 from nova.openstack.common import excutils
 from nova.openstack.common import log as logging
 
 LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+exc_log_opts = [
+    cfg.BoolOpt('fatal_exception_format_errors',
+                default=False,
+                help='make exception message format errors fatal'),
+]
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_opts(exc_log_opts)
+
 
 class ConvertedException(webob.exc.WSGIHTTPException):
     def __init__(self, code=0, title="", explanation=""):
@@ -137,8 +147,12 @@ class NovaException(Exception):
                 LOG.exception(_('Exception in string format operation'))
                 for name, value in kwargs.iteritems():
                     LOG.error("%s: %s" % (name, value))
-                # at least get the core message out if something happened
-                message = self.message
+
+                if CONF.fatal_exception_format_errors:
+                    raise e
+                else:
+                    # at least get the core message out if something happened
+                    message = self.message
 
         super(NovaException, self).__init__(message)