Potential upstart bug with overflowing stanzas

Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Wed Oct 29 09:37:06 GMT 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:32 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> After executing this example multiple times (~10 does the trick), I've
> gotten init + libdbus to become unresponsive to a large degree, where
> it starts printing out "latency error messages". I've seen this occur
> on QEMU/ppc and I haven't been able to replicate the issue on MIPS
> (yet). I have however seen the same error message when jamming a lot
> of DBUS requests to upstart using our in-house client.
> 
The author string isn't transmitted across libdbus, so I'm not sure
that's relevant here?

You're repeatedly allocating a 300KB author string?  That'll be simply
thrashing memory?

Scott
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