dbus signallPoll() timeouts

[a.brooks2 at marathon-targets.com]

I should also mention in case it's relevant: I can reproduce this issue 
on multiple types of hardware, it doesn't seem to be specific to any 
particular chipset.


Alex

On 2014-12-21 18:22, a.brooks2 at marathon-targets.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having an issue with the signalPoll() dbus method.
> If I leave a computer running for a day or three, calling signalPoll()
> at ~1Hz, eventually it gets stuck in a state where my client process
> sits at 100% CPU, occasionally returning the following error message:
> 
> "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote
> application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
> blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network
> connection was broken."
> 
> Restarting my client process resets everything (without restarting
> wpa_supplicant).
> 
> I attached gdb to my process, here's where it's sitting:
> 
> #7  0xb4463a0f in dbus_pending_call_block () from
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
> #8  0xb4452b95 in dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block () from
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
> #9  0xb5e57dd9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQt5DBus.so.5
> #10 0xb5e44290 in QDBusConnection::call(QDBusMessage const&,
> QDBus::CallMode, int) const () from
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQt5DBus.so.5
> #11 0xb5e636be in
> QDBusAbstractInterface::callWithArgumentList(QDBus::CallMode, QString
> const&, QList<QVariant> const&) () from
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQt5DBus.so.5
> #12 0xb5e64968 in QDBusAbstractInterface::call(QDBus::CallMode,
> QString const&, QVariant const&, QVariant const&, QVariant const&,
> QVariant const&, QVariant const&, QVariant const&, QVariant const&,
> QVariant const&) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQt5DBus.so.5
> #13 0xb5e64b34 in QDBusAbstractInterface::call(QString const&,
> QVariant const&, QVariant const&, QVariant const&, QVariant const&,
> QVariant const&, QVariant const&, QVariant const&, QVariant const&) ()
> from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQt5DBus.so.5
> #14 0xb4dc543b in wpa::WpaSupplicant::signalPoll (this=<optimized out>)
> 
> I start wpa_supplicant with '-dd', here's what syslog has to say:
> Dec 21 14:55:24 x17 wpa_supplicant[21763]: dbus:
> fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.Interface.SignalPoll
> (/fi/w1/wpa_supplicant1/Interfaces/1)
> Dec 21 14:55:49 x17 wpa_supplicant[21763]: dbus:
> fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.Interface.SignalPoll
> (/fi/w1/wpa_supplicant1/Interfaces/1)
> Dec 21 14:56:14 x17 wpa_supplicant[21763]: dbus:
> fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.Interface.SignalPoll
> (/fi/w1/wpa_supplicant1/Interfaces/1)
> [ ... repeating at the same rate as the timeout messages in my client
> process ... ].
> 
> I'm using the Qt dbus wrapper obviously -- not sure if the problem is
> within wpa_supplicant or Qt (or possibly my code somewhere) or how to
> tell...
> 
> Any hints?  I've run out of ideas how to track this down any further.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Alex
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