[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCHv2 1/4] avfilter/all: check and propagate the return code of av_expr_parse_and_eval

Ganesh Ajjanagadde gajjanag at mit.edu
Mon Nov 2 00:08:17 CET 2015


On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> Le primidi 11 brumaire, an CCXXIV, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
>> less fragile could be ret < 0 && ret != the error code generated by NaN
>> i dont know what to do about the clutter or if this approuch makes
>> sense or if just droping the return warning for av_expr_parse_and_eval
>> would be better ...
>
> The current code does not crash when errors happens (and ENOMEM doest not
> happen for this kind of small allocation anyway), my advice is that it is
> better left as is.

Can't users give arbitrarily long arithmetic expressions? The
expressions seem to me to be essentially untrusted data. I agree in
normal usage, strings are small.

I won't press this further if it is still a nack due to your point
about the lack of e.g dereferencing here, or in general usage of
av_expr_parse_and_eval. Thanks all for reviews.

>
> Regards,
>
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>   Nicolas George
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