libink/dbus: give parked and outstanding calls a deadline

A call is parked until the resolver says who sent it, and an outbound
call sits in a pending slot until its reply lands.  Neither had a way
to give up.  A broker that answers GetConnectionUnixUser slowly, or
not at all, leaves the caller waiting forever and keeps the slot; four
of those and every later privileged call is refused with
LimitsExceeded until Finit restarts.

libink cannot time itself out, it has no event loop, so the deadline
is the embedder's to keep.  One sweep per connection covers both, and
the ordering between them stays in the library rather than in each
embedder: calls first, because one timing out usually resolves the
park it was made for, and AccessDenied tells that caller more than a
bare timeout.

The sweep is armed when a resolve is deferred and stops rearming as
soon as nothing is outstanding, so a system that never meets a broker
never wakes up for it.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Joachim Wiberg committed 2026-08-13 10:15:19 +02:00
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@@ -62,10 +62,12 @@ TAILQ_HEAD(link_object_list, link_object);
/* An inbound method call held while we find out who sent it. The
* message is copied because rxbuf is reused as soon as we return to
* the read loop. `tok` is the handle the resolver answers with, and
* zero when the slot is free. */
* zero when the slot is free. `stamp` is when it was parked, for
* link_connection_expire(). */
struct link_parked {
link_authz_t tok;
link_connection_t *conn;
uint64_t stamp;
size_t len;
uint8_t buf[LINK_PARKED_MSG_MAX];
};
@@ -86,6 +88,7 @@ struct link_bus {
struct {
int used;
uint32_t serial;
uint64_t stamp; /* for link_connection_expire() */
link_reply_cb_t cb;
void *userdata;
} pending[LINK_PENDING_CAP];
@@ -177,9 +180,11 @@ void __log(const char *func, const char *fmt, ...)
__attribute__((format(printf, 2, 3)));
#define __dbg(fmt, ...) __log(__func__, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
/* io.c — shared EINTR-resilient I/O loops. */
/* io.c — shared EINTR-resilient I/O loops, and the clock the expiry
* sweeps measure against. */
int __io_write_all(int fd, const void *buf, size_t len);
int __io_read_full(int fd, void *buf, size_t len);
uint64_t __now_ms(void);
/* auth.c */
int __auth_process(link_connection_t *conn);
@@ -193,6 +198,7 @@ void __bus_free(link_connection_t *conn);
/* dispatch.c */
int __dispatch_message(link_connection_t *conn, const struct link_msg *m, size_t framelen);
void __dispatch_forget_conn(link_connection_t *conn);
int __dispatch_expire_parked(link_connection_t *conn, unsigned int age_ms);
int __send_error(link_connection_t *conn, const struct link_msg *req,
const char *error_name, const char *text);
int __send_method_return(link_connection_t *conn, const struct link_msg *req,