core: GC redundant device jobs from the run queue

In contrast to all other unit types device units when queued just track
external state, they cannot effect state changes on their own. Hence unless a
client or other job waits for them there's no reason to keep them in the job
queue. This adds a concept of GC'ing jobs of this type as soon as no client or
other job waits for them anymore.

To ensure this works correctly we need to track which clients actually
reference a job (i.e. which ones enqueued it). Unfortunately that's pretty
nasty to do for direct connections, as sd_bus_track doesn't work for
them. For now, work around this, by simply remembering in a boolean that a job
was requested by a direct connection, and reset it when we notice the direct
connection is gone. This means the GC logic works fine, except that jobs are
not immediately removed when direct connections disconnect.

In the longer term, a rework of the bus logic should fix this properly. For now
this should be good enough, as GC works for fine all cases except this one, and
thus is a clear improvement over the previous behaviour.

Fixes: #1921

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/bus-unit-util.c b/src/shared/bus-unit-util.c
index 4f66497f3a..a7702602eb 100644
--- a/src/shared/bus-unit-util.c
+++ b/src/shared/bus-unit-util.c
@@ -838,6 +838,8 @@ static int check_wait_response(BusWaitForJobs *d, bool quiet, const char* const*
                         log_error("Assertion failed on job for %s.", strna(d->name));
                 else if (streq(d->result, "unsupported"))
                         log_error("Operation on or unit type of %s not supported on this system.", strna(d->name));
+                else if (streq(d->result, "collected"))
+                        log_error("Queued job for %s was garbage collected.", strna(d->name));
                 else if (!streq(d->result, "done") && !streq(d->result, "skipped")) {
                         if (d->name) {
                                 int q;
@@ -853,7 +855,7 @@ static int check_wait_response(BusWaitForJobs *d, bool quiet, const char* const*
                 }
         }
 
-        if (streq(d->result, "canceled"))
+        if (STR_IN_SET(d->result, "canceled", "collected"))
                 r = -ECANCELED;
         else if (streq(d->result, "timeout"))
                 r = -ETIME;