From a8a07f892c6f64d88a9848deed56a9f3b778301a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:42:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bus: detect blocking message calls to our own connection and
 return ELOOP early

---
 src/libsystemd-bus/sd-bus.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libsystemd-bus/sd-bus.c b/src/libsystemd-bus/sd-bus.c
index 3ecda17fc..89437c161 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd-bus/sd-bus.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd-bus/sd-bus.c
@@ -1637,6 +1637,19 @@ _public_ int sd_bus_call(
 
                                 sd_bus_message_unref(incoming);
                                 return -EIO;
+
+                        } else if (incoming->header->serial == serial &&
+                                   bus->unique_name &&
+                                   incoming->sender &&
+                                   streq(bus->unique_name, incoming->sender)) {
+
+                                /* Our own message? Somebody is trying
+                                 * to send its own client a message,
+                                 * let's not dead-lock, let's fail
+                                 * immediately. */
+
+                                sd_bus_message_unref(incoming);
+                                return -ELOOP;
                         }
 
                         /* There's already guaranteed to be room for
-- 
2.30.2