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Commit 15c91a0a authored by David Faure's avatar David Faure
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Akonadi: fix dangling transaction after itemsync failure

Summary:
TransactionSequence was emitting result() twice when rolling back.

* How did this happen?
The TransactionRollbackJob is (automatically) added as a subjob of the
TransactionSequence, so when it finishes, slotResult is called (like for
all subjobs), as well as rollbackResult().
Since the latter emits result() already [mostly for symmetry with
commitResult()], we don't need to do that in slotResult (which doesn't do
it for the case of committing, either).

* Why is it a problem to emit result() twice?
Well, first, it's against the law in KJob world. In practice,
ItemSyncPrivate::slotTransactionResult was called twice (for the same
TransactionSequence job) which made it decrement mTransactionJobs one
time too many.
As a result, checkDone() finished too early and didn't go into the
"commit transaction" branch for other transactions.
Leaving a transaction "open" is a good recipe for database deadlocks further
down the line.

* Why did the TransactionSequence roll back in the first place?
In my case because of the infamous and not-yet fixed "Multiple merge
candidates" problem, but it seems that it can also happen when having
items without a part, according to Volker's investigations.
All of these issues still need to be fixed, but at least akonadi seems
to be still usable after they happen.

CCBUG: 399167

Test Plan: Ctrl+L in kmail, with a folder having multiple items for the same RID

Reviewers: dvratil, vkrause

Reviewed By: dvratil

Subscribers: kfunk, kde-pim

Tags: #kde_pim

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19487

(cherry picked from commit f1281cf1)
(cherry picked from commit 8ff596c4)
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