We have seen a rash of test failures on a 32-bit build agent. Commit
48698a5e21 solved an obvious problem where
we were not encoding a 64-bit value correctly over the wire. This
commit, however, did not solve the test failures.
In the failing tests, ARI is attempting to send a 537 byte text frame
over a websocket. When sending a frame this small, 16 bits are all that
is required in order to encode the payload length on the websocket
frame. However, ast_websocket_write() thinks that the payload length is
greater than 65535 and therefore writes out a 64 bit payload length.
Inspecting this payload length, the lower 32 bits are exactly what we
would expect it to be, 537 in hex. The upper 32 bits, are junk values
that are not expected to be there.
In the failure, we are passing the result of strlen() to a function that
expects a uint64_t parameter to be passed in. strlen() returns a size_t,
which on this 32-bit machine is 32 bits wide. Normally, passing a 32-bit
unsigned value to somewhere where a 64-bit unsigned value is expected
would cause no problems. In fact, in manual runs of failing tests, this
works just fine. However, ast_websocket_write() uses the Asterisk
optional API, which means that rather than a simple function call, there
are a series of macros that are used for its declaration and
implementation. These macros may be causing some sort of error to occur
when converting from a 32 bit quantity to a 64 bit quantity.
This commit changes the logic by making existing ast_websocket_write()
calls use ast_websocket_write_string() instead. Within
ast_websocket_write_string(), the 64-bit converted strlen is saved in a
local variable, and that variable is passed to ast_websocket_write()
instead.
Note that this commit message is full of speculation rather than
certainty. This is because the observed test failures, while always
present in automated test runs, never occur when tests are manually
attempted on the same test agent. The idea behind this commit is to fix
a theoretical issue by performing changes that should, at the least,
cause no harm. If it turns out that this change does not fix the failing
tests, then this commit should be reverted.
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