[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v1] avutil/frame: Use av_realloc_array()

Limin Wang lance.lmwang at gmail.com
Tue Dec 24 03:38:04 EET 2019


On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 10:20:37PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> On 12/23/2019 8:32 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 10:48:13PM +0800, lance.lmwang at gmail.com wrote:
> >> From: Limin Wang <lance.lmwang at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Limin Wang <lance.lmwang at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  libavutil/frame.c | 7 ++-----
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/libavutil/frame.c b/libavutil/frame.c
> >> index 1d0faec687..0a1ba877cc 100644
> >> --- a/libavutil/frame.c
> >> +++ b/libavutil/frame.c
> >> @@ -696,11 +696,8 @@ AVFrameSideData *av_frame_new_side_data_from_buf(AVFrame *frame,
> >>      if (!buf)
> >>          return NULL;
> >>  
> >> -    if (frame->nb_side_data > INT_MAX / sizeof(*frame->side_data) - 1)
> >> -        return NULL;
> >> -
> >> -    tmp = av_realloc(frame->side_data,
> >> -                     (frame->nb_side_data + 1) * sizeof(*frame->side_data));
> >> +    tmp = av_realloc_array(frame->side_data,
> >> +                     (frame->nb_side_data + 1), sizeof(*frame->side_data));
> > 
> > does something prevent "frame->nb_side_data + 1" from overflowing ?
> 
> av_realloc_array() is called with x + 1 as nmemb argument in several
> places. It checks for "nmemb >= INT_MAX / size", so it will never
> overflow with a buffer that increases by one element at a time (It would
> if the check was > alone).

I think about it, in case nb_side_data is INT_MAX, then frame->nb_side_data + 1 will overflow already
before enter av_realloc_array, so I add check for this overflow only.

> 
> The version 2 of this patch is pointless since it adds an extra check to
> the process, so if this one isn't applied then IMO none should.
> 
> > 
> > thx
> > 
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> > 
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