[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avformat: Add recursion limit
Michael Niedermayer
michael at niedermayer.cc
Mon Jul 7 13:31:01 EEST 2025
This is a generic recursion limit that is not specific to a demuxer
it does change public API which makes this unsuitable for backporting
Fixes: self_ref.ffconcat
Reported-by: Yuhao Jiang <danisjiang at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
---
libavformat/avformat.c | 5 +++++
libavformat/avformat.h | 9 +++++++++
libavformat/options_table.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.c b/libavformat/avformat.c
index 18ca4643eec..dca46395ac7 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.c
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.c
@@ -844,6 +844,11 @@ int ff_copy_whiteblacklists(AVFormatContext *dst, const AVFormatContext *src)
*(char **)((char*)dst + offsets[i]) = dst_str;
}
}
+ if (src->recursion_limit <= 0) {
+ av_log(dst, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Too deep recursion\n");
+ return AVERROR(ELOOP);
+ }
+ dst->recursion_limit = src->recursion_limit - 1;
return 0;
}
diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index b6c63e22376..ef1cf5d5a76 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -1884,6 +1884,15 @@ typedef struct AVFormatContext {
* @see skip_estimate_duration_from_pts
*/
int64_t duration_probesize;
+
+ /**
+ * Depth recursion limit,
+ *
+ * The maximum recursion depth that a Demuxer can open a Demuxer within itself.
+ *
+ * - demuxing: Set by user
+ */
+ int recursion_limit;
} AVFormatContext;
/**
diff --git a/libavformat/options_table.h b/libavformat/options_table.h
index e2e690fd2ae..8275570dae6 100644
--- a/libavformat/options_table.h
+++ b/libavformat/options_table.h
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ static const AVOption avformat_options[] = {
{"skip_estimate_duration_from_pts", "skip duration calculation in estimate_timings_from_pts", OFFSET(skip_estimate_duration_from_pts), AV_OPT_TYPE_BOOL, {.i64 = 0}, 0, 1, D},
{"max_probe_packets", "Maximum number of packets to probe a codec", OFFSET(max_probe_packets), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, { .i64 = 2500 }, 0, INT_MAX, D },
{"duration_probesize", "Maximum number of bytes to probe the durations of the streams in estimate_timings_from_pts", OFFSET(duration_probesize), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT64, {.i64 = 0 }, 0, INT64_MAX, D},
+{"recursion_limit", "Maximum number of times a demuxer can recursively be opened", OFFSET(recursion_limit), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, {.i64 = 10 }, 0, INT64_MAX, D},
{NULL},
};
--
2.49.0
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