Hi Andrew,

On 03/21/2016 05:10 PM, Andrew Zaborowski wrote:
> Kdbus doesn't store the cookies for messages that have the no reply flag
> and throws error when a reply is sent with reply_cookie that it doesn't
> know.  It's not fatal, but we also save some cycles by not sending the
> message.  A further change could be made to not even let users create a
> message as a return from a method call but that may be confusing.
> ---
>   ell/dbus-message.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>   ell/dbus-private.h |  1 +
>   ell/dbus.c         |  5 +++++
>   3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ell/dbus-message.c b/ell/dbus-message.c
> index a7c9699..5ecac8d 100644
> --- a/ell/dbus-message.c
> +++ b/ell/dbus-message.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
>
>   #define DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAG_NO_REPLY_EXPECTED	0x01
>   #define DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAG_NO_AUTO_START		0x02
> +#define DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAG_DISCARD		0x04

No, you're over-riding the ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION flag.
>
>   #define DBUS_MESSAGE_FIELD_PATH		1
>   #define DBUS_MESSAGE_FIELD_INTERFACE	2
> @@ -185,6 +186,22 @@ LIB_EXPORT bool l_dbus_message_get_no_autostart(struct l_dbus_message *msg)
>
>   }
>
> +bool _dbus_message_get_discard(struct l_dbus_message *msg)
> +{
> +	struct dbus_header *hdr;
> +
> +	if (unlikely(!msg))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	hdr = msg->header;
> +
> +	if (hdr->flags & DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAG_DISCARD)
> +		return true;

No, please don't do it this way.  hdr gets sent over the wire.  We need 
to store this flag locally.  Lets just add

bool discard : 1;

to struct l_dbus_message

> +
> +	return false;
> +

Spurious whitespace

> +}
> +
>   static struct l_dbus_message *message_new_common(uint8_t type, uint8_t flags,
>   						uint8_t version)
>   {
> @@ -285,10 +302,13 @@ LIB_EXPORT struct l_dbus_message *l_dbus_message_new_method_return(
>   	struct l_dbus_message *message;
>   	struct dbus_header *hdr = method_call->header;
>   	const char *sender;
> +	uint8_t flags = DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAG_NO_REPLY_EXPECTED;
> +
> +	if (l_dbus_message_get_no_reply(method_call))
> +		flags |= DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAG_DISCARD;
>
>   	message = message_new_common(DBUS_MESSAGE_TYPE_METHOD_RETURN,
> -					DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAG_NO_REPLY_EXPECTED,
> -					hdr->version);
> +					flags, hdr->version);

if (l_dbus_message_get_no_reply(method_call))
	message->discard = true;

>
>   	message->reply_serial = hdr->serial;
>
> @@ -308,14 +328,16 @@ LIB_EXPORT struct l_dbus_message *l_dbus_message_new_error_valist(
>   	struct l_dbus_message *reply;
>   	struct dbus_header *hdr = method_call->header;
>   	const char *sender;
> +	uint8_t flags = DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAG_NO_REPLY_EXPECTED;
>
>   	if (!_dbus_valid_interface(name))
>   		return NULL;
>
> +	if (l_dbus_message_get_no_reply(method_call))
> +		flags |= DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAG_DISCARD;
> +
>   	vsnprintf(str, sizeof(str), format, args);
> -	reply = message_new_common(DBUS_MESSAGE_TYPE_ERROR,
> -					DBUS_MESSAGE_FLAG_NO_REPLY_EXPECTED,
> -					hdr->version);
> +	reply = message_new_common(DBUS_MESSAGE_TYPE_ERROR, flags, hdr->version);
>
>   	reply->reply_serial = hdr->serial;
>
> diff --git a/ell/dbus-private.h b/ell/dbus-private.h
> index 0ae4c69..3b40fea 100644
> --- a/ell/dbus-private.h
> +++ b/ell/dbus-private.h
> @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ void *_dbus_message_get_header(struct l_dbus_message *msg, size_t *out_size);
>   void _dbus_message_set_serial(struct l_dbus_message *msg, uint32_t serial);
>   uint32_t _dbus_message_get_serial(struct l_dbus_message *msg);
>   uint32_t _dbus_message_get_reply_serial(struct l_dbus_message *message);
> +bool _dbus_message_get_discard(struct l_dbus_message *msg);
>
>   void _dbus_message_set_sender(struct l_dbus_message *message,
>   					const char *sender);
> diff --git a/ell/dbus.c b/ell/dbus.c
> index b9864bd..d976496 100644
> --- a/ell/dbus.c
> +++ b/ell/dbus.c
> @@ -1323,6 +1323,11 @@ LIB_EXPORT uint32_t l_dbus_send(struct l_dbus *dbus,
>   	if (unlikely(!dbus || !message))
>   		return 0;
>
> +	if (_dbus_message_get_discard(message)) {
> +		l_dbus_message_unref(message);
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
>   	return send_message(dbus, false, message, NULL, NULL, NULL);
>   }
>
>

Regards,
-Denis