2 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/sbus/sssd_dbus.h b/src/sbus/sssd_dbus.h
index 3bf70c8cc..0fd499cbe 100644
--- a/src/sbus/sssd_dbus.h
+++ b/src/sbus/sssd_dbus.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ struct sbus_interface;
 struct sbus_request;
 
 #include <dbus/dbus.h>
+#include "util/util.h"
 
 typedef int (*sbus_msg_handler_fn)(struct sbus_request *dbus_req,
                                    void *instance_data);
@@ -253,6 +254,21 @@ int sbus_request_fail_and_finish(struct sbus_request *dbus_req,
                                  const DBusError *error);
 
 /*
+ * Construct a new DBusError instance which can be consumed by functions such
+ * as @sbus_request_fail_and_finish().
+ *
+ * The @error is a string constant representing a DBus error as documented at
+ * http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/html/group__DBusProtocol.html.
+ * The parameter @err_msg is a human-readable error representation (or
+ * NULL for none). The returned DBusError is a talloc context and the err_msg
+ * is duplicated using the returned DBusError instance as a talloc parent.
+ */
+DBusError *sbus_error_new(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx,
+                          const char *dbus_err_name,
+                          const char *fmt,
+                          ...) SSS_ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF(3,4);
+
+/*
  * Parse a DBus method call request.
  *
  * If parsing the method call message does not succeed, then an error is
diff --git a/src/sbus/sssd_dbus_request.c b/src/sbus/sssd_dbus_request.c
index d8b189095..0021ce0e9 100644
--- a/src/sbus/sssd_dbus_request.c
+++ b/src/sbus/sssd_dbus_request.c
@@ -143,6 +143,33 @@ int sbus_request_fail_and_finish(struct sbus_request *dbus_req,
     return ret;
 }
 
+DBusError *sbus_error_new(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx,
+                          const char *dbus_err_name,
+                          const char *fmt,
+                          ...)
+{
+    DBusError *dberr;
+    const char *err_msg_dup = NULL;
+    va_list ap;
+
+    dberr = talloc(mem_ctx, DBusError);
+    if (dberr == NULL) return NULL;
+
+    if (fmt) {
+        va_start(ap, fmt);
+        err_msg_dup = talloc_vasprintf(dberr, fmt, ap);
+        va_end(ap);
+        if (err_msg_dup == NULL) {
+            talloc_free(dberr);
+            return NULL;
+        }
+    }
+
+    dbus_error_init(dberr);
+    dbus_set_error_const(dberr, dbus_err_name, err_msg_dup);
+    return dberr;
+}
+
 struct array_arg {
     char **dbus_array;
 };