[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/hls: Pass a copy of the URL for probing

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 09:08:07PM +0200, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer:
> > The segments / url can be modified by the io read when reloading
> > 
> > This may be an alternative or additional fix for Ticket8673
> > as a further alternative the reload stuff could be disabled during
> > probing
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > ---
> >  libavformat/hls.c | 6 ++++--
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/libavformat/hls.c b/libavformat/hls.c
> > index 3798bdd5d1..ba17c4ed96 100644
> > --- a/libavformat/hls.c
> > +++ b/libavformat/hls.c
> > @@ -1946,6 +1946,7 @@ static int hls_read_header(AVFormatContext *s)
> >      /* Open the demuxer for each playlist */
> >      for (i = 0; i < c->n_playlists; i++) {
> >          struct playlist *pls = c->playlists[i];
> > +        char *url;
> >          ff_const59 AVInputFormat *in_fmt = NULL;
> >  
> >          if (!(pls->ctx = avformat_alloc_context())) {
> > @@ -1983,8 +1984,9 @@ static int hls_read_header(AVFormatContext *s)
> >                            read_data, NULL, NULL);
> >          pls->ctx->probesize = s->probesize > 0 ? s->probesize : 1024 * 4;
> >          pls->ctx->max_analyze_duration = s->max_analyze_duration > 0 ? s->max_analyze_duration : 4 * AV_TIME_BASE;
> > -        ret = av_probe_input_buffer(&pls->pb, &in_fmt, pls->segments[0]->url,
> > -                                    NULL, 0, 0);
> > +        url = av_strdup(pls->segments[0]->url);
> > +        ret = av_probe_input_buffer(&pls->pb, &in_fmt, url, NULL, 0, 0);
> > +        av_free(url);
> >          if (ret < 0) {
> >              /* Free the ctx - it isn't initialized properly at this point,
> >               * so avformat_close_input shouldn't be called. If
> > 
> Is the missing allocation check intentional?

i thought if it fails filename is NULL and the code could still
plausibly continue.
but we can also fail or warn if people prefer

thx

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