[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/nutdec: Add check for avformat_new_stream

[Jiasheng Jiang]

Andreas Rheinhardt:
>> As the potential failure of the memory allocation,
>> the avformat_new_stream() could return NULL pointer.
>> Therefore, it should be better to check it and return
>> error if fails.
>> 
>> Fixes: 84ad31ff18 ("lavf: replace av_new_stream->avformat_new_stream part II.")
>
> This commit did not introduce this bug; it merely replaced the unchecked
> function.
>
> If you look at nut_read_header() you will see that it just retries even
> on allocation failure. So this is not a complete fix. And if it retries
> and finds a different packet header, it adds ever more streams, because
> the already created streams have not been deleted. A proper fix would
> need to check the return value of decode_main_header for ENOMEM, but if
> time_base_count were invalid and huge, one could get an allocation error
> even though there might be a valid header somewhere else. So one would
> need an equivalent of NUT_MAX_STREAMS for timebases or some other
> criterion to rule this out.

Fine, I have submit a v2 to fix the problems above.

Jiang