fail/cpn: (Database)Campaign no longer loses jobs

Up until now the JobServer was silently losing jobs and only claiming to be
finished - a workaround for this was to restart the campaign until all jobs
were finished according to the database and the campaign's output.
This change fixes the underlying problem, so a single campaign-run suffices
and does no longer lose any jobs.
Debugging this was awful and took us quite some time...

Change-Id: Ie6c982cc3b2ce11128941f1f13be563bae22565c

src/core/comm/SocketComm.cc

@@ -27,19 +27,40 @@ bool SocketComm::sendMsg(int sockfd, google::protobuf::Message& msg)
   
 bool SocketComm::rcvMsg(int sockfd, google::protobuf::Message& msg)
 {
-    int size;
+    char *buf;
-    if (safe_read(sockfd, &size, sizeof(size)) == -1) {
+    int bufsiz;
-        return false;
+    if ((buf = getBuf(sockfd, &bufsiz))) {
-    }
+        std::string st(buf, bufsiz);
-    size = ntohl(size);
-    char *buf = new char[size];
-    if (safe_read(sockfd, buf, size) == -1) {
         delete [] buf;
-        return false;
+        return msg.ParseFromString(st);
     }
-    std::string st(buf, size);
+    return false;
-    delete [] buf;
+}
-    return msg.ParseFromString(st);
+
+bool SocketComm::dropMsg(int sockfd)
+{
+    char *buf;
+    int bufsiz;
+    if ((buf = getBuf(sockfd, &bufsiz))) {
+        delete [] buf;
+        return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
+char * SocketComm::getBuf(int sockfd, int *size)
+{
+    char *buf;
+    if (safe_read(sockfd, size, sizeof(int)) == -1) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+    *size = ntohl(*size);
+    buf = new char[*size];
+    if (safe_read(sockfd, buf, *size) == -1) {
+        delete [] buf;
+        return 0;
+    }
+    return buf;
 }
 
 ssize_t SocketComm::safe_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)

src/core/comm/SocketComm.hpp

@@ -38,7 +38,15 @@ public:
 	 */
 	static bool rcvMsg(int sockfd, google::protobuf::Message& msg);
 
+	/**
+	 * Receive Protobuf-generated message and just drop it
+	 * @param sockfd open socket descriptor to read from
+	 * \return false if message reception failed
+	 */
+	static bool dropMsg(int sockfd);
+
 private:
+	static char * getBuf(int sockfd, int *size);
 	static ssize_t safe_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
 	static ssize_t safe_read(int fd, void *buf, size_t count);
 };

src/core/cpn/JobServer.cc

@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ void CommThread::receiveExperimentResults(Minion& minion, FailControlMessage& ct
 			cout << "[Server] Received another result for workload id ["
 				 << ctrlmsg.workloadid(i) << "] -- ignored." << endl;
 
-			// TODO: Any need for error-handling here?
+			SocketComm::dropMsg(minion.getSocketDescriptor());
 		}
 	}