[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] dict.c: use av_mallocz instead of av_realloc

Paweł Hajdan, Jr phajdan at google.com
Tue Jan 29 12:41:10 CET 2013


From: "Paweł Hajdan, Jr" <phajdan at google.com>

Memory passed to av_realloc must come from malloc,
calloc or realloc, and not e.g. memalign. realloc(3):

The realloc() function changes the size of the memory block pointed to
by ptr to size bytes. (...) Unless ptr is NULL, it must have been
returned by an earlier call to malloc(), calloc() or realloc().

The issue has been found by debugallocation, a part of google-perftools:
http://code.google.com/p/gperftools/ .

This makes fate pass when using LD_PRELOAD-ed debugallocation.

See also earlier discussion
http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2013-January/137234.html

Signed-off-by: Paweł Hajdan, Jr <phajdan at google.com>
---
 libavutil/dict.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavutil/dict.c b/libavutil/dict.c
index 06f963c..23816e8 100644
--- a/libavutil/dict.c
+++ b/libavutil/dict.c
@@ -94,10 +94,12 @@ int av_dict_set(AVDictionary **pm, const char *key, const char *value, int flags
             m->elems[m->count].value = (char*)(intptr_t)value;
         } else if (oldval && flags & AV_DICT_APPEND) {
             int len = strlen(oldval) + strlen(value) + 1;
-            if (!(oldval = av_realloc(oldval, len)))
+            char *newval = av_mallocz(len);
+            if (!newval)
                 return AVERROR(ENOMEM);
-            av_strlcat(oldval, value, len);
-            m->elems[m->count].value = oldval;
+            av_strlcat(newval, oldval, len);
+            av_strlcat(newval, value, len);
+            m->elems[m->count].value = newval;
         } else
             m->elems[m->count].value = av_strdup(value);
         m->count++;
-- 
1.7.12.4



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