Hi: There are a few line of source code of DefaultChannel's initChannel methods, may cause stack overflow potentially. Although camel will never cause such a bug in current release version, (I explain in the following comments), but in future , if some change is made, a stack overflow bug may occurs; I tagged the explain with "@1",
DefaultChannel. initChannel(){ ...... for (InterceptStrategy strategy : interceptors) { next = target == nextProcessor ? null : nextProcessor; if (strategy instanceof Tracer) { continue; } Processor wrapped = strategy.wrapProcessorInInterceptors(routeContext.getCamelContext(), outputDefinition, target, next); if (!(wrapped instanceof AsyncProcessor)) { //@1 now camle will never execute in this block, because the wrapped always be a async-processor(actually , it's a tracer); //@1 but if something changed, it will not be a AsyncProcessor, then a potential stack overflow bug will occurs; InterceptorToAsyncProcessorBridge bridge = new InterceptorToAsyncProcessorBridge(target); //@1 the returned wrapped may equals bridge itself, if the strategy do nothing; wrapped = strategy.wrapProcessorInInterceptors(routeContext.getCamelContext(), outputDefinition, bridge, next); //@1 here bridge's target may point to itself, so a stack over flow bug will raised; suggest to make sure if wrapped == bridge bridge.setTarget(wrapped); wrapped = bridge; } target = wrapped; }