[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavcodec/videotoolbox_vp9: Move av_malloc() to avoid memory leak

Jiasheng Jiang jiashengjiangcool at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 22:31:15 EEST 2025


Move av_malloc() after the check for subsampling to avoid memory leak if subsampling < 0 and av_malloc() succeeds.

Fixes: a41a2efc85 ("lavc/videotoolbox: add VP9 hardware acceleration")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiashengjiangcool at gmail.com>
---
 libavcodec/videotoolbox_vp9.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavcodec/videotoolbox_vp9.c b/libavcodec/videotoolbox_vp9.c
index de7fc0c935..f2cb34fca4 100644
--- a/libavcodec/videotoolbox_vp9.c
+++ b/libavcodec/videotoolbox_vp9.c
@@ -71,12 +71,12 @@ CFDataRef ff_videotoolbox_vpcc_extradata_create(AVCodecContext *avctx)
     uint8_t *vt_extradata;
     int subsampling = get_vpx_chroma_subsampling(avctx->sw_pix_fmt, avctx->chroma_sample_location);
 
-    vt_extradata_size = 1 + 3 + 6 + 2;
-    vt_extradata = av_malloc(vt_extradata_size);
-
     if (subsampling < 0)
         return NULL;
 
+    vt_extradata_size = 1 + 3 + 6 + 2;
+    vt_extradata = av_malloc(vt_extradata_size);
+
     if (!vt_extradata)
         return NULL;
 
-- 
2.25.1



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