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

[David Henningsson]

On 09/20/2013 02:06 PM, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, patch acked from me.


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