1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/swaybar/ipc.c b/swaybar/ipc.c
index 05238d8b..a64aa1ab 100644
--- a/swaybar/ipc.c
+++ b/swaybar/ipc.c
@@ -547,7 +547,16 @@ bool handle_ipc_readable(struct swaybar *bar) {
                 return false;
         }
 
-        json_tokener *tok = json_tokener_new_ex(INT_MAX);
+        // The default depth of 32 is too small to represent some nested layouts, but
+        // we can't pass INT_MAX here because json-c (as of this writing) prefaults
+        // all the memory for its stack.
+        json_tokener *tok = json_tokener_new_ex(256);
+        if (!tok) {
+                sway_log_errno(SWAY_ERROR, "failed to create tokener");
+                free_ipc_response(resp);
+                return false;
+        }
+
         json_object *result = json_tokener_parse_ex(tok, resp->payload, -1);
         enum json_tokener_error err = json_tokener_get_error(tok);
         json_tokener_free(tok);