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Date :
2023-06-20T13:22:55
ibus: Handle error when getting the D-Bus machine ID
It is possible for retrieving the machine ID to fail, either because
dbus was installed incorrectly (machine ID absent or corrupt), or in
32-bit builds, because stat() on the machine ID fails with EOVERFLOW
if it has an out-of-range timestamp or inode number.
dbus has historically treated this as a faulty installation, raising
a warning which by default causes the process to crash. Unfortunately,
dbus_get_local_machine_id() never had a way to report errors, so it has
no alternative for that (bad) error handling.
In dbus >= 1.12.0, we can use dbus_try_get_local_machine_id() to get
the same information, but with the ability to cope gracefully with
errors. ibus won't work in this situation, but that's better than
crashing.
(cherry picked from commit 91198baed40d5709020c3001e9234f4580df696a)
Mitigates: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9605
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>