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diff --git a/lib/tdb/common/transaction.c b/lib/tdb/common/transaction.c
index 035b4e1d54..501cd62b96 100644
--- a/lib/tdb/common/transaction.c
+++ b/lib/tdb/common/transaction.c
@@ -85,6 +85,13 @@
still available, but no transaction recovery area is used and no
fsync/msync calls are made.
+ - if TDB_ALLOW_NESTING is passed to flags in tdb open, or added using
+ tdb_add_flags() transaction is enabled.
+ The default is that transaction nesting is not allowed and an attempt
+ to create a nested transaction will fail with TDB_ERR_NESTING.
+
+ Beware. when transactions are nested a transaction successfully
+ completed with tdb_transaction_commit() can be silently unrolled later.
*/
@@ -427,6 +434,10 @@ int tdb_transaction_start(struct tdb_context *tdb)
/* cope with nested tdb_transaction_start() calls */
if (tdb->transaction != NULL) {
+ if (!(tdb->flags & TDB_ALLOW_NESTING)) {
+ tdb->ecode = TDB_ERR_NESTING;
+ return -1;
+ }
tdb->transaction->nesting++;
TDB_LOG((tdb, TDB_DEBUG_TRACE, "tdb_transaction_start: nesting %d\n",
tdb->transaction->nesting));