[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avformat/webm_chunk: Fix argument length of get_chunk_filename()

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Fri May 24 13:24:32 EEST 2019


On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:03:02PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:11:00AM +0000, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
> > Michael Niedermayer:
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > > ---
> > >  libavformat/webm_chunk.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/libavformat/webm_chunk.c b/libavformat/webm_chunk.c
> > > index 2c99753b5b..561ec152e7 100644
> > > --- a/libavformat/webm_chunk.c
> > > +++ b/libavformat/webm_chunk.c
> > > @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int chunk_mux_init(AVFormatContext *s)
> > >      return 0;
> > >  }
> > >  
> > > -static int get_chunk_filename(AVFormatContext *s, int is_header, char *filename)
> > > +static int get_chunk_filename(AVFormatContext *s, int is_header, char filename[MAX_FILENAME_SIZE])
> > >  {
> > >      WebMChunkContext *wc = s->priv_data;
> > >      AVFormatContext *oc = wc->avf;
> > > 
> > 1. This is not a fix, merely a cosmetic clarification. After all, this
> > change does not allow the compiler to infer that every pointer
> > corresponding to the filename argument will point to an array of at
> > least MAX_FILENAME_SIZE elements. (C99 added a static keyword for this.)
> 
> static analyzers can use such hints to detect violations
> but the real intent here was that the human developer would see
> from just looking at the argument that it has a implied size.
> And that way to avoid a mistake

will apply with a improved commit message

thanks

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