From 978af89175f8235b767f90f9e4be5522b41da4e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:43:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Disallow running async tasks with lookup plugins

Fixes #2897
---
 lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py
index 7f9e18aa1c..8f8c3276d1 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py
@@ -458,6 +458,9 @@ class Runner(object):
             # executing using with_items, so make multiple calls
             # TODO: refactor
 
+            if self.background > 0:
+                raise errors.AnsibleError("lookup plugins (with_*) cannot be used with async tasks")
+
             aggregrate = {}
             all_comm_ok = True
             all_changed = False