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fix(dbusbind): resolve signal and method-call handlers before queueing - #444
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`dbus-check-event` requires `functionp` on a `dbus-event`'s handler slot, and the port filled that slot only for method-return/error replies. Every incoming signal therefore queued an event carrying a nil handler, which the wait loop rejected with `dbus-error "Not a valid D-Bus event"`. One Avahi service-type browser signal was enough: byte-compiling `lisp/net/tramp-archive.el` runs its toplevel `(require 'tramp-gvfs)`, which calls `zeroconf-init`, which opens that browser; the file's exit status then takes the whole `cargo xtask fresh-build` down with it. Measured here: 9 of 10 isolated byte-compiles of that one file failed, while the pipeline failed whenever the reply landed inside that file's ~1.3s window. Port the method-call/signal arm of GNU `xd_read_message_1` (src/dbusbind.c:1864-1918): look the registration up under `(:method|:signal BUS INTERFACE MEMBER)`, plus the three wildcard keys `dbus-register-signal` fills when INTERFACE or SIGNAL is nil; match each entry on sender and object path; queue one event per distinct handler; and store nothing when no registration matches. Add the `(:monitor BUS)` arm (src/dbusbind.c:1921), which must not queue a handlerless event either. An error message carries its name in the D-Bus ERROR_NAME header field, not MEMBER, and GNU puts `dbus_message_get_error_name` into the member slot. Reading `Message::member` left that slot nil, so any error reply -- a peer's "no such method", a rejected call, a timeout -- was rejected the same way. Read it back through `Message::as_result`, since the dbus crate exposes no header-field accessor. Tests: two bus-free dispatch tests (an unregistered signal stores nothing; a registered one fills the handler slot and honours the path filter) and two session-bus tests (a directed signal and a directed method call reach their handlers). Verified: `cargo nextest run --release -p neovm-core --lib dbusbind` 10/10; `cargo xtask fresh-build --release` exit 0 with 1687/1687 files; the isolated byte-compile of lisp/net/tramp-archive.el 10/10 (was 1/10). Not addressed here: Lisp cannot send replies (`dbus-message-internal` type 2/3 answers "Unable to create a return message"), so a dispatched method call runs its handler but cannot answer its caller.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughD-Bus event handling now queues method calls and signals for matching registered handlers, subject to sender and path constraints. Replies and errors use and remove handlers registered by bus and serial. Unmatched messages are dropped unless a monitor is registered. New tests cover local and session-bus dispatch. ChangesD-Bus event dispatch
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Asynchronous D-Bus calls using lambda or closure handlers can lose their reply callbacks. Preserve the registered handler before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A signal registered for a named service can reach its handler from another bus participant if that service has no owner when registration occurs. The change makes those handlers reachable, although the exposure is limited to participants able to send on the relevant D-Bus connection. Retained concerns
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In `@crates/neovm-core/src/emacs_core/system/dbusbind/event.rs`:
- Around line 95-99: Update take_serial_handler to return the stored handler
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| MessageType::MethodReturn | MessageType::Error => { | ||
| let handler = take_serial_handler(ctx, bus, serial)?; | ||
| if !handler.is_nil() { | ||
| store_event(ctx, &prefix, handler, &args); | ||
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Preserve cons-shaped asynchronous handlers.
dbus-call-method-asynchronously accepts lambda and closure handlers. message_internal stores each handler unchanged. take_serial_handler then replaces every cons handler with its car. The resulting lambda or closure symbol is not the original handler, and dbus-check-event can reject the reply event.
The synchronous dbus-call-method path passes the symbol dbus-call-method-handler, so this issue does not affect that path. Return the stored handler unchanged.
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- Ok(if handler.is_cons() {
- handler.cons_car()
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In `@crates/neovm-core/src/emacs_core/system/dbusbind/event.rs` around lines 95 -
99, Update take_serial_handler to return the stored handler unchanged instead of
replacing cons-shaped handlers with their car, preserving lambda and closure
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It is a subtle low-level change to D-Bus event dispatch and Emacs Lisp parity with concurrency/event-loop implications whose edge-case correctness (wildcard/monitor semantics, handler dedup) warrants human verification.
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What changed in this PR
This PR fixes a D-Bus event-dispatch defect in the dbusbind port that could take down the whole Lisp byte-compile pass. Previously, incoming signals and method calls always queued a dbus-event with a nil handler slot, which dbus-check-event rejects as "Not a valid D-Bus event". A single unhandled directed signal (Avahi's CacheExhausted, triggered transitively by byte-compiling lisp/net/tramp-archive.el) could abort whatever the wait loop was pumping. The fix ports GNU's xd_read_message_1 matching logic so an event is stored only when a registration matches, restoring parity with GNU Emacs.
Changes:
queue_event→queue_events: resolve handlers fromdbus-registered-objects-tablebefore queueing; store one event per distinct matching handler, and nothing when nothing matches (signals/methods), including the wildcard signal keys and sender/path filtering.- Fix the MEMBER slot for
Errormessages to use the D-Bus error name (viaMessage::as_result) instead of the emptyMEMBERheader field; add the(:monitor BUS)arm. - Add four tests (two bus-free, two session-bus that skip when absent) and register the new
signaltest module.
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crates/neovm-core/src/emacs_core/system/dbusbind/event.rs |
Core fix: registration-aware dispatch, error-name MEMBER, monitor arm, helper refactor. |
crates/neovm-core/src/emacs_core/system/dbusbind/tests/signal.rs |
New tests covering unregistered/registered signals and end-to-end signal/method dispatch. |
crates/neovm-core/src/emacs_core/system/dbusbind/tests/mod.rs |
Registers the new signal test module under neomacs_have_dbus. |
I verified: Value is Copy (so reusing bus/entries by value is sound); dbus-registered-objects-table uses the Equal hash test (freshly-built string keys match); the 4-key wildcard lookup matches how dbus-register-signal stores entries with nil interface/signal; the entry layout (UNAME SERVICE PATH HANDLER RULE) indices used by car/cdr are correct; the prefix+handler field order matches dbus-check-event's nth expectations; queue_special_event lands in kboard.unread_events (as the tests assert); and no stale references to the renamed queue_event/lookup_handler/optional_str remain.
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| /// GNU `xd_store_event`: queue `(HANDLER . EVENT-PREFIX) ++ ARGS`. |
What breaks
cargo xtask fresh-build --releasedies in the Lisp byte-compile pass, on a single file:One file out of 1687 takes the whole build down.
Why
dbus-check-event(lisp/net/dbus.el) validates an incoming event with(functionp (nth 9 event)). The port filled slot 9 only for method-return/error replies, so every signal queued adbus-eventwith a nil handler, and the wait loop rejected it withdbus-error "Not a valid D-Bus event".The trigger is GNU's own Lisp:
tramp-archive.el:113is(require 'tramp-gvfs), which byte-compiling evaluates at toplevel, andtramp-gvfs.el:2571-2581callszeroconf-initat load, which opens an Avahi service-type browser. Avahi'sCacheExhaustedis a directed signal to our own connection — no registration asks for it, so GNU drops it; neomacs queued it and then rejected it.GNU cannot hit this:
xd_read_message_1fills the handler slot from the registration table and stores nothing at all when nothing matches. The same arm was missing for method calls, and an error reply had a second, independent problem (below).It is a race — the reply only hurts if it is pumped while that file's toplevel form is being evaluated. Measured in isolation here: 9 of 10 byte-compiles of that one file failed.
The fix
xd_read_message_1(src/dbusbind.c:1864-1918): look up(:method|:signal BUS INTERFACE MEMBER)plus, for signals, the three wildcard keysdbus-register-signalfills when INTERFACE or SIGNAL is nil; filter each entry on sender and object path; queue one event per distinct handler; and store nothing when no registration matches.(:monitor BUS)arm (src/dbusbind.c:1921) — it must not queue a handlerless event either.ERROR_NAMEheader field, notMEMBER, and GNU putsdbus_message_get_error_namein that slot. ReadingMessage::memberleft it nil, so any error reply — a peer's "no such method", a rejected call, a timeout — was rejected the same way. Read back throughMessage::as_result, since thedbuscrate exposes no header-field accessor.Verification
cargo nextest run --release -p neovm-core --lib dbusbindlisp/net/tramp-archive.el, 10 runscargo xtask fresh-build --releaseNew tests: two bus-free (
unregistered_signal_stores_no_event,registered_signal_fills_the_handler_slot— the latter also checks the path filter) and two on the session bus (directed_signal_reaches_its_handler,directed_method_call_reaches_its_handler). The bus ones skip when no session bus is present, like the existingcall.rs.Follow-ups, deliberately not in this PR
dbus-message-internaltypes 2/3 answer"Unable to create a return message", so a dispatched method call runs its handler but never answers its caller.dbus-handle-event's(dbus-error …)clause did run its handler (dbus-event-error-functionsfired,dbus-debugnil) and yet the error still reached the caller, where GNU would swallow it. The sources of malformed events are fixed, so the path is not currently reachable — but the discrepancy looks real and may deserve its own look.