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

[Arun Raghavan]

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?

As Tanu says, this doesn't open up a new vector, really.

> Btw; is there a specific web browser you're looking at?

webkitgtk+ uses PulseAudio via GStreamer and Firefox has a PulseAudio
backend that maps each stream to a PA stream. Chrome/Chromium also has
as PA backend, but I don't recall off the top of my head if they do
their own mixing.

-- Arun