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-rw-r--r--chardev/char-socket.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chardev/char-socket.c b/chardev/char-socket.c
index 8a0406cc1e..2c4dffc0e6 100644
--- a/chardev/char-socket.c
+++ b/chardev/char-socket.c
@@ -601,6 +601,22 @@ static void update_ioc_handlers(SocketChardev *s)
remove_hup_source(s);
s->hup_source = qio_channel_create_watch(s->ioc, G_IO_HUP);
+ /*
+ * poll() is liable to return POLLHUP even when there is
+ * still incoming data available to read on the FD. If
+ * we have the hup_source at the same priority as the
+ * main io_add_watch_poll GSource, then we might end up
+ * processing the POLLHUP event first, closing the FD,
+ * and as a result silently discard data we should have
+ * read.
+ *
+ * By setting the hup_source to G_PRIORITY_DEFAULT + 1,
+ * we ensure that io_add_watch_poll GSource will always
+ * be dispatched first, thus guaranteeing we will be
+ * able to process all incoming data before closing the
+ * FD
+ */
+ g_source_set_priority(s->hup_source, G_PRIORITY_DEFAULT + 1);
g_source_set_callback(s->hup_source, (GSourceFunc)tcp_chr_hup,
chr, NULL);
g_source_attach(s->hup_source, chr->gcontext);