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. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
