From: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:35:51 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: service: fix auto-restart handling in service_start()
X-Git-Tag: v183~49
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e9d6c1251abc0af9aa5bc53610bd522d55be776;p=systemd

service: fix auto-restart handling in service_start()

Do not bypass the SERVICE_DEAD/SERVICE_FAILED state by manually issuing
a start job while an automatic restart is pending.
---

diff --git a/src/core/service.c b/src/core/service.c
index 9512e0e9..5d82e9b5 100644
--- a/src/core/service.c
+++ b/src/core/service.c
@@ -2436,7 +2436,16 @@ static int service_start(Unit *u) {
             s->state == SERVICE_START_POST)
                 return 0;
 
-        assert(s->state == SERVICE_DEAD || s->state == SERVICE_FAILED || s->state == SERVICE_AUTO_RESTART);
+        /* A service that will be restarted must be stopped first to
+         * trigger BindTo and/or OnFailure dependencies. If a user
+         * does not want to wait for the holdoff time to elapse, the
+         * service should be manually restarted, not started. */
+        if (s->state == SERVICE_AUTO_RESTART) {
+                log_warning("%s automatic restart is pending, must be stopped before issuing start request.", UNIT(s)->id);
+                return -ECANCELED;
+        }
+
+        assert(s->state == SERVICE_DEAD || s->state == SERVICE_FAILED);
 
         /* Make sure we don't enter a busy loop of some kind. */
         r = service_start_limit_test(s);