sd-netlink: don't give up on netlink on ENOBUFS

If our netlink input buffer overruns the kernel will send us ENOBUFS on
the next recvmsg(). Don't consider this a complete failure resulting in
closing of the netlink socket. Instead, simply continue (after debug
logging).

Of course, ideally we'd have a better strategy for this, and would have
a way to resync if this happens (as well as a scheme for cancelling all
ongoing asynchronous transactions), but for now let's at least not choke
fatally, and simply accept that we lost some messages and continue.

Note that if we lose messages when synchronously waiting for an
operation to complete, we'll still propagate the ENOBUFS up, to make the
individual transaction fail.

See: #5398

(This bug does not properly fix the issue, hence we should leave the bug
open.)

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/netlink-socket.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/netlink-socket.c
index a0fd8a3ac9..129bfd2d80 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/netlink-socket.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/netlink-socket.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static int socket_recv_message(int fd, struct iovec *iov, uint32_t *_group, bool
                 else if (errno == EAGAIN)
                         log_debug("rtnl: no data in socket");
 
-                return (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EINTR) ? 0 : -errno;
+                return IN_SET(errno, EAGAIN, EINTR) ? 0 : -errno;
         }
 
         if (sender.nl.nl_pid != 0) {
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int socket_recv_message(int fd, struct iovec *iov, uint32_t *_group, bool
                         /* drop the message */
                         r = recvmsg(fd, &msg, 0);
                         if (r < 0)
-                                return (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EINTR) ? 0 : -errno;
+                                return IN_SET(errno, EAGAIN, EINTR) ? 0 : -errno;
                 }
 
                 return 0;
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/sd-netlink.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/sd-netlink.c
index 43114eb825..68435564de 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/sd-netlink.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-netlink/sd-netlink.c
@@ -276,6 +276,10 @@ static int dispatch_rqueue(sd_netlink *rtnl, sd_netlink_message **message) {
         if (rtnl->rqueue_size <= 0) {
                 /* Try to read a new message */
                 r = socket_read_message(rtnl);
+                if (r == -ENOBUFS) { /* FIXME: ignore buffer overruns for now */
+                        log_debug_errno(r, "Got ENOBUFS from netlink socket, ignoring.");
+                        return 1;
+                }
                 if (r <= 0)
                         return r;
         }