[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avcodec/utils: report insane channel count errors

Marton Balint cus at passwd.hu
Fri Jul 13 23:55:15 EEST 2018



On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 12:51:11PM +0200, Marton Balint wrote:
>> More than 64 is not *that* insane, so let's report the error at least.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu>
>> ---
>>  libavcodec/utils.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/libavcodec/utils.c b/libavcodec/utils.c
>> index 59d41ccbb6..4ac73fcd92 100644
>> --- a/libavcodec/utils.c
>> +++ b/libavcodec/utils.c
>> @@ -674,6 +674,7 @@ int attribute_align_arg avcodec_open2(AVCodecContext *avctx, const AVCodec *code
>>          av_freep(&avctx->subtitle_header);
>>
>>      if (avctx->channels > FF_SANE_NB_CHANNELS) {
>> +        av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Too many channels: %d\n", avctx->channels);
>>          ret = AVERROR(EINVAL);
>>          goto free_and_end;
>>      }
>
> LGTM, if nothing equivalent is otherwise printed

No equivivalent is printed in the general case, there are some demuxers 
which reject this many channels in read_header, but not all of them.

Applied.

Thanks,
Marton


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