Bug with dbus_pending_call_steal_reply?

bitfxed bitfxed at disroot.org
Fri Aug 18 02:10:17 UTC 2023


I was trying to receive a reply from a method call I made using dbus_pending_call_steal_reply but the thing is it tells me I'm trying to use an incorrect argument during runtime.

This is the code I was using:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dbus/dbus.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         DBusError err;
         DBusConnection *con;
         DBusMessage *msg;
         DBusMessage *reply;
         DBusPendingCall *pending;

         dbus_error_init(&err);

         con = dbus_bus_get(DBUS_BUS_SYSTEM, &err);
         if (dbus_error_is_set(&err)) {
                 fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: %s\n", err.message);
                 dbus_error_free(&err);
                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         }

         msg = dbus_message_new_method_call("org.freedesktop.systemd1", "/org/freedesktop/systemd1", "org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager", "GetUnit");
         const char *msg_arg1 = "cron.service";
         dbus_message_append_args(msg,
                                 DBUS_TYPE_STRING, &msg_arg1,
                                 DBUS_TYPE_INVALID);

         dbus_connection_send_with_reply(con, msg, &pending, DBUS_TIMEOUT_USE_DEFAULT);

         for (;;) {
                 if ((reply = dbus_pending_call_steal_reply(pending)) == NULL)
                         continue;
                 else
                         break;
         }

         return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

And the error was:

dbus[6959]: arguments to dbus_pending_call_steal_reply() were incorrect, assertion "pending->completed" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-pending-call.c line 734.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

   D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted

If instead of that for loop I call dbus_pending_call_block() and then steal the reply it works fine.
According tohttps://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/html/group__DBusPendingCall.html#ga5a738928c2369fef093ce00658903d06  dbus_pending_call_steal_reply should return NULL if the reply isn't there yet, so I don't know, is this a bug with that function or was I doing something wrong?
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