}
/**
+ * See if errno is ETOOMANYREFS
+ * @returns #TRUE if errno == ETOOMANYREFS
+ */
+dbus_bool_t
+_dbus_get_is_errno_etoomanyrefs (void)
+{
+#ifdef ETOOMANYREFS
+ return errno == ETOOMANYREFS;
+#else
+ return FALSE;
+#endif
+}
+
+/**
* Get error message from errno
* @returns _dbus_strerror(errno)
*/
dbus_bool_t _dbus_get_is_errno_enomem (void);
dbus_bool_t _dbus_get_is_errno_eintr (void);
dbus_bool_t _dbus_get_is_errno_epipe (void);
+dbus_bool_t _dbus_get_is_errno_etoomanyrefs (void);
const char* _dbus_strerror_from_errno (void);
void _dbus_disable_sigpipe (void);
{
/* EINTR already handled for us */
- /* For some discussion of why we also ignore EPIPE here, see
+ /* If the other end closed the socket with close() or shutdown(), we
+ * receive EPIPE here but we must not close the socket yet: there
+ * might still be some data to read. See:
* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2008-March/009526.html
*/
if (_dbus_get_is_errno_eagain_or_ewouldblock () || _dbus_get_is_errno_epipe ())
goto out;
+
+ /* Since Linux commit 25888e (from 2.6.37-rc4, Nov 2010), sendmsg()
+ * on Unix sockets returns -1 errno=ETOOMANYREFS when the passfd
+ * mechanism (SCM_RIGHTS) is used recursively with a recursion level
+ * of maximum 4. The kernel does not have an API to check whether
+ * the passed fds can be forwarded and it can change asynchronously.
+ * See:
+ * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80163
+ */
+
+ else if (_dbus_get_is_errno_etoomanyrefs ())
+ {
+ /* We only send fds in the first byte of the message.
+ * ETOOMANYREFS cannot happen after.
+ */
+ _dbus_assert (socket_transport->message_bytes_written == 0);
+
+ _dbus_verbose (" discard message of %d bytes due to ETOOMANYREFS\n",
+ total_bytes_to_write);
+
+ socket_transport->message_bytes_written = 0;
+ _dbus_string_set_length (&socket_transport->encoded_outgoing, 0);
+ _dbus_string_compact (&socket_transport->encoded_outgoing, 2048);
+
+ /* The message was not actually sent but it needs to be removed
+ * from the outgoing queue
+ */
+ _dbus_connection_message_sent_unlocked (transport->connection,
+ message);
+ }
else
{
_dbus_verbose ("Error writing to remote app: %s\n",