[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/4] proresenc_kostya: report buffer overflow

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Tue Aug 12 02:15:50 CEST 2014


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:06:08PM +0000, Christophe Gisquet wrote:
> If the allocated size, despite best efforts, is too small, exit
> with the appropriate error.
> ---
>  libavcodec/proresenc_kostya.c | 13 ++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

This is kind of an internal error, we should ideally allocate the
buffer large enough, or reallocate as needed, but the case tested
for here should never happen if everything else works correctly

but its alot safer to do this check than to not do it
so applied

thanks

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