[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] avformat/mxfdec: use binary search in mxf_absolute_bodysid_offset

Tomas Härdin tjoppen at acc.umu.se
Fri Mar 9 11:57:27 EET 2018


On 2018-03-09 01:28, Marton Balint wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Marton Balint wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 4 Mar 2018, Tomas Härdin wrote:
>>
>>> tor 2018-03-01 klockan 22:41 +0100 skrev Marton Balint:
>>>> > Signed-off-by: Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu>
>>>> ---
>>>>  libavformat/mxfdec.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
>>>>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/libavformat/mxfdec.c b/libavformat/mxfdec.c
>>>> index d4291f5dc7..70091e0dc9 100644
>>>> --- a/libavformat/mxfdec.c
>>>> +++ b/libavformat/mxfdec.c
>>>> @@ -1347,24 +1347,30 @@ static int 
>> mxf_get_sorted_table_segments(MXFContext *mxf, int *nb_sorted_segment
>>>>   */
>>>>  static int mxf_absolute_bodysid_offset(MXFContext *mxf, int body_sid, 
>> int64_t offset, int64_t *offset_out)
>>>>  {
>>>> -    int x;
>>>>      MXFPartition *last_p = NULL;
>>>> +    int a, b, m, m0;
>>>>
>>>>      if (offset < 0)
>>>>          return AVERROR(EINVAL);
>>>>
>>>> -    for (x = 0; x < mxf->partitions_count; x++) {
>>>> -        MXFPartition *p = &mxf->partitions[x];
>>>> +    a = -1;
>>>
>>> I've got a bad feeling about this -1
>>
>> There is an explicit check after the loop when we actually use the 
>> value of 'a' to see if it remained -1 or not. Other than that using 
>> this construct (a = -1, b = count) is also used in other places 
>> throughout the codebase for binary search.
>>
>>>
>>>> +    b = mxf->partitions_count;
>>>>
>>>> -        if (p->body_sid != body_sid)
>>>> -            continue;
>>>> +    while (b - a > 1) {
>>>> +        m0 = m = (a + b) >> 1;
>>>
>>> Could overflow with a specially crafted file. But I guess it would have
>>> to be on the order of 1 TiB.
>>
>> I guess we could limit the number of partitions to INT_MAX / 2, 
>> although it really needs a *huge* crafted file and parsing it would 
>> probably take ages for the demuxer anyway...
>>
>>>
>>> It also looks like this might behave incorrectly when a=-1, b=0
>>
>> That can't happen as the loop condition would be false in that case.
>>
>
> Will push this soon.

INT_MAX/2 sounds like a decent solution.

/Tomas


More information about the ffmpeg-devel mailing list