X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=daemon%2Fproto.c;h=acd66017fd91493f397fa3310677d7fa82f19eef;hp=62871b5d3285780ce6d0dfcd2d8b91feb074635a;hb=bf2b08560f649c22152e4138531ad0b46b4ad1b3;hpb=a7b73d4a1e09f12b2002083618056f0c823c1dcf

diff --git a/daemon/proto.c b/daemon/proto.c
index 62871b5..acd6601 100644
--- a/daemon/proto.c
+++ b/daemon/proto.c
@@ -266,9 +266,14 @@ reply (xdrproc_t xdrp, char *ret)
   }
 
   if (xdrp) {
+    /* This can fail if the reply body is too large, for example
+     * if it exceeds the maximum message size.  In that case
+     * we want to return an error message instead. (RHBZ#509597).
+     */
     if (!(*xdrp) (&xdr, ret)) {
-      fprintf (stderr, "guestfsd: failed to encode reply body\n");
-      exit (1);
+      reply_with_perror ("guestfsd: failed to encode reply body\n");
+      xdr_destroy (&xdr);
+      return;
     }
   }