This happened with the 800M JSON for the MCP listchannels on the raspberry
pi, and tal calls abort() by default.
We switch to raw malloc here; we could override the error hook for
tal, but this is neater since we're doing low-level things anyway,
I tested it manually with this patch:
diff --git a/lightningd/json_stream.c b/lightningd/json_stream.c
index cec9f5771..206ba37c0 100644
--- a/lightningd/json_stream.c
+++ b/lightningd/json_stream.c
@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ static void free_json_stream_membuf(struct json_stream *js)
free(membuf_cleanup(&js->outbuf));
}
+static void *membuf_realloc_hack(struct membuf *mb, void *rawelems,
+ size_t newsize)
+{
+ if (newsize > 1000000000)
+ return NULL;
+ return realloc(rawelems, newsize);
+}
+
struct json_stream *new_json_stream(const tal_t *ctx,
struct command *writer,
struct log *log)
@@ -53,7 +61,7 @@ struct json_stream *new_json_stream(const tal_t *ctx,
js->reader = NULL;
/* We don't use tal here, because we handle failure externally (tal
* helpfully aborts with a msg, which is usually right) */
- membuf_init(&js->outbuf, malloc(64), 64, membuf_realloc);
+ membuf_init(&js->outbuf, malloc(64), 64, membuf_realloc_hack);
tal_add_destructor(js, free_json_stream_membuf);
#if DEVELOPER
js->wrapping = tal_arr(js, jsmntype_t, 0);
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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