core: rework how we flush incoming traffic when a socket unit goes down

Previously, we'd simply close and reopen the socket file descriptors. This is
problematic however, as we won't transition through the SOCKET_CHOWN state
then, and thus the file ownership won't be correct for the sockets.

Rework the flushing logic, and actually read any queued data from the sockets
for flushing, and accept any queued messages and disconnect them.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/io-util.c b/src/basic/io-util.c
index 0037a37f2a..cc6dfa8c1b 100644
--- a/src/basic/io-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/io-util.c
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ int flush_fd(int fd) {
                 .events = POLLIN,
         };
 
+        /* Read from the specified file descriptor, until POLLIN is not set anymore, throwing away everything
+         * read. Note that some file descriptors (notable IP sockets) will trigger POLLIN even when no data can be read
+         * (due to IP packet checksum mismatches), hence this function is only safe to be non-blocking if the fd used
+         * was set to non-blocking too. */
+
         for (;;) {
                 char buf[LINE_MAX];
                 ssize_t l;