[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] sink: Increase max sink inputs per sink

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 09:29 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> On 09/20/2013 05:44 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> > We're hitting the 32 sink-input limit quite often with increasing use of
> > PA by web browsers, so let's increase this limit.
> 
> Does this increase the risk of us being the target of attacks; i e, if a
> web browser deliberately starts 255 streams, would we risk getting
> killed by using too much rtprio cpu time?

Even with the limit being at 32 it's possible to do a DoS attack by
creating streams with many channels and a high sample rate. As far as I
can see, raising the limit doesn't create any new threats.

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Tanu