[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavc/avpacket: Initialize a variable in error path

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Fri Feb 17 20:45:44 EET 2017


On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:53:26AM +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 2017-02-17 1:42 GMT+01:00 Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>:
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:49:05AM +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Attached patch is said to fix undefined behaviour, see ticket #6153,
> >> I cannot reproduce.
> >>
> >> Please comment, Carl Eugen
> >
> > patch is ok
> 
> Patch pushed and backported.
> 

> > the issue described is real but a bit hypothetical and probably has
> > no real world effect
> 
> I don't understand how the issue can be triggered...

a compiler can optimize it out, i would expect it to need -O0
also iam not sure what ubsan exactly considers an issue, depending on
that it may be random if it can be reproduced
didnt try or see the exact ubsan error


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