[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/dump: Avoid unnecessary implicit calculation of strlen

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

av_strlcpy() returns the length of the src string to enable
the caller to check for truncation. It is currently used in
the following way in dump_metadata(): Every metadata value
is searched for \b, \n, \v, \f, \r and then the data up to
the first of these characters found is copied to a small
temporary buffer via av_strlcpy() (but of course not more
than fits into said buffer) and then printed; all characters up
to the character found earlier are then treated as consumed.

But this is bad performance-wise if the while string is big
and contains many of these characters, because av_strlcpy()
will unnecessarily calculate the length of the whole remaining string.
(dump_metadata() actually ignored the return value of av_strlcpy().)

Fix this by just not copying the data in a temporary buffer at all.
Instead just use the %.*s to bound the number of characters output.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt at outlook.com>
---
 libavformat/dump.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavformat/dump.c b/libavformat/dump.c
index e3f0056c20..cafcef36c6 100644
--- a/libavformat/dump.c
+++ b/libavformat/dump.c
@@ -145,10 +145,8 @@ static void dump_metadata(void *ctx, const AVDictionary *m, const char *indent)
                 av_log(ctx, AV_LOG_INFO,
                        "%s  %-16s: ", indent, tag->key);
                 while (*p) {
-                    char tmp[256];
                     size_t len = strcspn(p, "\x8\xa\xb\xc\xd");
-                    av_strlcpy(tmp, p, FFMIN(sizeof(tmp), len+1));
-                    av_log(ctx, AV_LOG_INFO, "%s", tmp);
+                    av_log(ctx, AV_LOG_INFO, "%.*s", (int)(FFMIN(255, len)), p);
                     p += len;
                     if (*p == 0xd) av_log(ctx, AV_LOG_INFO, " ");
                     if (*p == 0xa) av_log(ctx, AV_LOG_INFO, "\n%s  %-16s: ", indent, "");
-- 
2.34.1