Bug #1194: 16MB limit opening m3u files - Audacious - OLD, PLEASE USE GITHUB DISCUSSIONS/ISSUES - Redmine

Bug #1194

16MB limit opening m3u files

Added by Michael Purcell about 2 years ago. Updated almost 2 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Minor

Assignee:

Category:

libaudcore

Target version:

4.3

Start date:

October 05, 2022

Due date:

% Done:

Estimated time:

Affects version:

4.1

Description

File -> Open Files -> [Navigate to Directory] -> Choose large.m3u file

Playlist truncated after about 16MB (after about 110000 entries with this playlist)

Remove comment lines using grep -v '^#'from large.m3u and playlist loads completely (currently 113224 entries)

This 16MB limit seems arbitrary, I would just expect audacious to continue to read m3u playlist until the end of file.

Audacious Version and OS level:

[root@music ~]# audacious -v
Audacious 4.1 (Fedora package)
[root@music ~]# uname -a
Linux music.purcell.lan 5.19.13-100.fc35.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Oct 4 16:05:25 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

History

#1 Updated by Thomas Lange about 2 years ago

The buffer size in VFSFile::read_all() is indeed limited to 16 MiB.

@John: Do you think we should increase it? Or can the m3u plugin use another approach to load the file?

https://github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious/blob/1a405f1cdbdd768ac41f1885366609f6ac4b333d/src/libaudcore/vfs.cc#L286

#2 Updated by John Lindgren about 2 years ago

I suppose the easy fix would be to increase the limit. It is there simply to prevent a malicious (possibly remote) file from exhausting memory, but I don't think there is anything magical about the 16 MiB number. We could probably raise it to 256 MiB easily and still be fine as far as OOM scenarios.