Summary: immsv: Revert imma_client_node->replyPending to unsigned char [#1341]
Review request for Trac Ticket(s): 1341
Peer Reviewer(s): Neel; Zoran
Pull request to: 
Affected branch(es): 4.5; 4.6; default(4.7)
Development branch: 

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Impacted area       Impact y/n
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 Docs                    n
 Build system            n
 RPM/packaging           n
 Configuration files     n
 Startup scripts         n
 SAF services            n
 OpenSAF services        n
 Core libraries          n
 Samples                 n
 Tests                   n
 Other                   n


Comments (indicate scope for each "y" above):
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changeset b2ca36ec5d86f5df64bede49617a31cca1d82484
Author: Anders Bjornerstedt <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:48:03 +0200

        immsv: Revert imma_client_node->replyPending to unsigned char [#1341]

         The member imma_client_node->replyPending was in OpenSAF4.1 and earlier
        defined as 'uns8', i.e. a byte. But this member is a counter and not a
        boolean. The uns8 type was often used as a proxy for a boolean type in
        OpenSAF 4.1 and earlier. This was before 'bool' was available as a first
        class type for gcc. At some point in OpenSAF 4.2 the bool C type became
        available in gcc. There was then a general sweep across all services to
        change the use of uns8 to bool. The replyPending member was swept along 
in
        this change, but code actually still increments and decrements the 
value,
        which makes no sense for a boolean type.

        The intent of the replyPending member is to keep track of outstanding
        replies on requests from imma library to immnd server using the handle. 
This
        so that a restart of the local IMMND will result in the handle being 
marked
        as 'exposed' and not resurrected. An IMMND restart will mean that any
        unreplied requests will have lost their replies. This violates the 
interface
        contract from the imm service side towards the client using the handle 
and
        so the handle must not be allowed to get resurrected. Instead the handle
        must be marked as exposed. The client will then get an ERR_BAD_HANDLE 
from
        either saImmOxDispatch (failed active resurrect) or from the next 
syncronous
        downcall made after IMMND went down (failed reactive resurrect).

        For syncronous requests, the count will only go from 0 to 1 and back to 
0 on
        reply. This ticket does not affect syncronous requests. For asyncronous
        requests it is possible for the client to invoke more than one request,
        before entering poll to receive replies. For asyncronous requests the
        replyPending member must work as a counter and not a boolean. The 
effect of
        being a boolean is that a handle may get resurrected when there is still
        asyncronous requests unreplied to, i.e. the replies would get silently 
lost.

        This changeset restores the type of the repliesPending member to 
unsigned
        char.


Complete diffstat:
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 osaf/libs/agents/saf/imma/imma_cb.h   |  2 +-
 osaf/libs/agents/saf/imma/imma_proc.c |  5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


Testing Commands:
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Complicated to test.
REquires the setup of asyncronous admin-operation requests such that
multiple requests are perfomed before engaging in the wait for replies.
Then force a restart of the local IMMND while more than one equest is still
being processed or is queued towards the OI. Multiple OIs could also be used.

The IMMND should be restarted after one reply has been received. This will
reset the boolean variant of repliesPending to false (no replies pending)
which is incorrect. The counter variant will decrement the counter but not
to zero. 

A restat of the IMMND at this stage should cause the handle to be resurrected
when the current boolean varaint is used. With htis patch the handle should not
get resurrected. Instead ERR_BAD_HANDLE would be returned from saImmOmDispatch.

Testing, Expected Results:
--------------------------

Resurrect will incorrectly succeed without the patch, but correctly fail with
the patch. 

Conditions of Submission:
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Ack from Neel.


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mips        n          n
mips64      n          n
x86         n          n
x86_64      n          n
powerpc     n          n
powerpc64   n          n


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