[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/options_table: Set the default maximum number of streams to 100

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:35:08AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le nonidi 19 frimaire, an CCXXV, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
> > > > A. Is a heap limit for av_*alloc*() acceptable ?
> 
> > moving the threshold of where to declare something OOM or hang around
> > will not solve this.
> 
> Yet this is your "A" proposal. Or am I misunderstanding you?

no, i missed that "A" alone would not solve the fuzzer aspect of this
somewere in what i wrote ...
if thats what you mean then you are correct

"A" would mainly help for user app being crashed with the lib OOM

"B" would mainly help the fuzzer issue but also in a more limited sense
reduce the crash issue.
Here even with seperate processes one probably prefers processes not
maxing out their OS limits. A webpage with thousand images (not unlikely)
would either have a thousand processes or one taking down all the image
decoding. Whichever way its implemented more robustness against OOM and
hangs is a good thing

Also we could declare some decoders with capability flags as safe to
be used in the same process.
For example the simple image decoders can surely be made to be safe
with just a max_pixel limit, and that should have users who would
prefer not to need a seperate process.

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