Help Needed

[Frank Huang]

Hello DBus community,

I am working on the DBus project which is monitoring the active network state change. I encounter a technique challenge and need help here.

I subscribe to the DBus and listen for the signal of active network state change:
        DBus_Subscriber subscription_request_signal(&dbus_manager_, "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Connection.Active",
                "signal",
                "StateChanged",
                input, signal_callback, "signal_callback");

In the callback, I use a vector of shared pointer as the args to receive the payload from DBus:
void Network_Manager::dbusNetworkConnectivitySignalCallback(char* signature, std::vector<std::shared_ptr<void>> &args)

The args is passed to the following dbus library function to receive the payload:
arr is the same args from the callback function, arrary_ptr is the local shared_pointer.
                    // Reads a basic-typed value from the message iterator.
                    dbus_message_iter_get_basic(args, &array_ptr);
                    arr->push_back(array_ptr);


In the two block of code below, #1 and #2 are accessing the same shared pointer, #1 is working, #2 hit the segfault kernel crash by the last line of code which try to access what the shared pointer is pointing to. I have added the debug code to verify that the retval_ptr is not nullptr, and checked the size of the args which is valid.

    // #1 using std::stringstream
    std::stringstream reason_ss;
    reason_ss << std::static_pointer_cast<uint32_t>(args.back());
    INFO("stringstream signal reason: " + reason_ss.str());

    // #2 using uint32_t
    std::shared_ptr<uint32_t> retval_ptr;
    uint32_t reason_uint;
    retval_ptr = std::static_pointer_cast<uint32_t>(args.back());
    reason_uint = *retval_ptr;

I have tried to understand the data structure in our DBus document from the DBus official site but could not find the smoking gun of the segfault issue. Could anyone point me out why the #2 doesn't work? We want to use #2 in our code base.

Any input will be highly appreciated!
-Frank H
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