[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/utils: do_decode: Assert that the decoder return value is not larger than the packet size

wm4 nfxjfg at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 22 16:04:54 CEST 2016


On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:59:14 +0200
Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 09:11:52AM +0200, wm4 wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 05:14:30 +0200
> > Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> >   
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > > ---
> > >  libavcodec/utils.c |    1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/libavcodec/utils.c b/libavcodec/utils.c
> > > index 52e0d92..b35fabc 100644
> > > --- a/libavcodec/utils.c
> > > +++ b/libavcodec/utils.c
> > > @@ -2738,6 +2738,7 @@ static int do_decode(AVCodecContext *avctx, AVPacket *pkt)
> > >          avctx->internal->draining_done = 1;
> > >  
> > >      if (ret >= pkt->size) {
> > > +        av_assert0(ret == pkt->size);
> > >          av_packet_unref(avctx->internal->buffer_pkt);
> > >      } else {
> > >          int consumed = ret;  
> > 
> > Basically all code using the "old" API expects that the decoder can
> > read beyond the buffer (making use of input padding I suppose). So I
> > think this is expected.  
> 
> iam not aware of any decoder that would return such a overread size
> also to double check this yesterday i tested this with a bunch of
> fuzzed files before posting the patch and failed to find anything that
> triggers the assert
> 
> [...]

I'm talking about code like this:

     ret = FFMIN(ret, pkt->size); /* guard against bogus return values */
     pkt->data += ret;
     pkt->size -= ret;

(currently found in ffprobe)

Checks like this are all over the place.

If you're confident that these checks are unnecessary and that
avcodec_decode_audio4 should never return a larger value than the
packet size, the assert should be added to avcodec_decode_audio4.

Why do you want to add it specifically to do_decode?


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