base/SOURCES/0754-pid1-fix-collection-of-cycles-of-units-which-referen.patch

From 703cc4991049cdf3ad3506e432cda982b3b3b007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:37:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] pid1: fix collection of cycles of units which reference one
 another

A .socket will reference a .service unit, by registering a UnitRef with the
.service unit. If this .service unit has the .socket unit listed in Wants or
Sockets or such, a cycle will be created. We would not free this cycle
properly, because we treated any unit with non-empty refs as uncollectable. To
solve this issue, treats refs with UnitRef in u->refs_by_target similarly to
the refs in u->dependencies, and check if the "other" unit is known to be
needed. If it is not needed, do not treat the reference from it as preventing
the unit we are looking at from being freed.

(cherry picked from commit 2641f02e23ac7d5385db7f932aff221a063f245e)

Resolves: #1718953
---
 src/core/manager.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 src/core/unit.c    |  9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/core/manager.c b/src/core/manager.c
index 9dfdd67860..fdbb3c0fd9 100644
--- a/src/core/manager.c
+++ b/src/core/manager.c
@@ -888,6 +888,20 @@ static void unit_gc_sweep(Unit *u, unsigned gc_marker) {
                         is_bad = false;
         }
 
+        if (u->refs_by_target) {
+                const UnitRef *ref;
+
+                LIST_FOREACH(refs_by_target, ref, u->refs_by_target) {
+                        unit_gc_sweep(ref->source, gc_marker);
+
+                        if (ref->source->gc_marker == gc_marker + GC_OFFSET_GOOD)
+                                goto good;
+
+                        if (ref->source->gc_marker != gc_marker + GC_OFFSET_BAD)
+                                is_bad = false;
+                }
+        }
+
         if (is_bad)
                 goto bad;
 
diff --git a/src/core/unit.c b/src/core/unit.c
index 5376ef862f..2204be26d2 100644
--- a/src/core/unit.c
+++ b/src/core/unit.c
@@ -288,7 +288,11 @@ bool unit_may_gc(Unit *u) {
 
         /* Checks whether the unit is ready to be unloaded for garbage collection.
          * Returns true when the unit may be collected, and false if there's some
-         * reason to keep it loaded. */
+         * reason to keep it loaded.
+         *
+         * References from other units are *not* checked here. Instead, this is done
+         * in unit_gc_sweep(), but using markers to properly collect dependency loops.
+         */
 
         if (u->job)
                 return false;
@@ -315,9 +319,6 @@ bool unit_may_gc(Unit *u) {
         if (u->no_gc)
                 return false;
 
-        if (u->refs_by_target)
-                return false;
-
         if (UNIT_VTABLE(u)->may_gc && !UNIT_VTABLE(u)->may_gc(u))
                 return false;