suricatasc: Handle incomplete/empty recv values

Issue: 4947

Improve handling of values returned by recv. Sometimes, recv returns an
empty string if suricata terminates asynchronously.

diff --git a/python/suricata/sc/suricatasc.py b/python/suricata/sc/suricatasc.py
index e3235ce4aa385399f26a62db4c8c9deb03069a5d..fa0638961d4835c916159e7d07e407b07cb8eac0 100644 (file)
--- a/python/suricata/sc/suricatasc.py
+++ b/python/suricata/sc/suricatasc.py
@@ -118,9 +118,14 @@ class SuricataSC:
         data = ""
         while True:
             if sys.version < '3':
-                data += self.socket.recv(INC_SIZE)
+                received = self.socket.recv(INC_SIZE)
             else:
-                data += self.socket.recv(INC_SIZE).decode('iso-8859-1')
+                received = self.socket.recv(INC_SIZE).decode('iso-8859-1')
+
+            if not received:
+                break
+
+            data += received
             if data.endswith('\n'):
                 cmdret = json.loads(data)
                 break