[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2] lavc/vvc: Detect subpic overlaps at CTU level

Frank Plowman post at frankplowman.com
Sun May 18 16:16:29 EEST 2025


On 29/04/2025 14:24, Nuo Mi wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> Thank you for the detail.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM Frank Plowman <post at frankplowman.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 28/04/2025 14:33, Nuo Mi wrote:
>>> Hi Frank,
>>> Thank you for the v2.
>>> Could we remove all asserts?
>>> Asserts can cause the application to crash at runtime.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think av_assert2s are the right thing to use here.  In case it was not
>> clear, these asserts should never be triggered by any bitstream (legal
>> or illegal).  The alternatives, as I see it, are both less favourable:
>>
>> * Don't check the return value at all.  If the assumption above that
>> pps_add_ctus shouldn't fail in these cases is incorrect, then all of a
>> sudden there is a rather unscrutable error arising from subtracting a
>> value from off, which might be rather difficult to debug.  An assertion
>> is better because it makes the issue obvious by crashing, and
>> immediately points to the location in the code which is problematic.
>>
> FFmpeg will run on multiple computers, so detecting and returning an error
> is better than crashing the program — even if it's a rare occurrence.
> 
>>
>> * Add a runtime check for these cases.  If the assumption above is
>> correct, then we're incurring needless runtime penalty checking for
>> things which are always true.  An av_assert2 is better because it is
>> only enabled in debug builds, and not where performance is essential.
>>
> The entire process happens at the PPS level, and usually, we only have one
> per stream, so the performance loss should be minimal.
> 

Ok, I've replaced the asserts with runtime errors in v3.

>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM Frank Plowman <post at frankplowman.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In d5dbcc00d889fb17948b025a468b00ddbea9e058, it was hoped that detection
>>>> of subpicture overlaps could be performed at the tile level, so as to
>>>> avoid introducing per-CTU checks. Unfortunately since that patch,
>>>> fuzzing has indicated there are some structures involving
>>>> pps_subpic_one_or_more_tiles_slice where tile-level checking is not
>>>> sufficient.  Performing the check at the CTU level should (touch wood)
>>>> be the be-all and and-all of this, as CTUs are the lowest common
>>>> denominator of the picture partitioning.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Frank Plowman <post at frankplowman.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Changes since v1:
>>>> * Merge pps_add_ctus and pps_add_ctus_check
>>>> * Change if/else for early-exit where possible
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>  libavcodec/vvc/ps.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>>>>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/libavcodec/vvc/ps.c b/libavcodec/vvc/ps.c
>>>> index e8c312d8ac..ed96268bae 100644
>>>> --- a/libavcodec/vvc/ps.c
>>>> +++ b/libavcodec/vvc/ps.c
>>>> @@ -408,6 +408,8 @@ static int pps_add_ctus(VVCPPS *pps, int *off, const
>>>> int rx, const int ry,
>>>>      int start = *off;
>>>>      for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
>>>>          for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
>>>> +            if (*off >= pps->ctb_count)
>>>> +                return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
>>>>              pps->ctb_addr_in_slice[*off] = ctu_rs(rx + x, ry + y, pps);
>>>>              (*off)++;
>>>>          }
>>>> @@ -420,9 +422,11 @@ static void pps_single_slice_picture(VVCPPS *pps,
>> int
>>>> *off)
>>>>      pps->num_ctus_in_slice[0] = 0;
>>>>      for (int j = 0; j < pps->r->num_tile_rows; j++) {
>>>>          for (int i = 0; i < pps->r->num_tile_columns; i++) {
>>>> -            pps->num_ctus_in_slice[0] += pps_add_ctus(pps, off,
>>>> +            const int ret = pps_add_ctus(pps, off,
>>>>                  pps->col_bd[i], pps->row_bd[j],
>>>>                  pps->r->col_width_val[i], pps->r->row_height_val[j]);
>>>> +            av_assert2(ret >= 0);
>>>> +            pps->num_ctus_in_slice[0] += ret;
>>>>          }
>>>>      }
>>>>  }
>>>> @@ -451,50 +455,36 @@ static void subpic_tiles(int *tile_x, int *tile_y,
>>>> int *tile_x_end, int *tile_y_
>>>>          (*tile_y_end)++;
>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>> -static bool mark_tile_as_used(bool *tile_in_subpic, const int tx, const
>>>> int ty, const int tile_columns)
>>>> -{
>>>> -    const size_t tile_idx = ty * tile_columns + tx;
>>>> -    if (tile_in_subpic[tile_idx]) {
>>>> -        /* the tile is covered by other subpictures */
>>>> -        return false;
>>>> -    }
>>>> -    tile_in_subpic[tile_idx] = true;
>>>> -    return true;
>>>> -}
>>>> -
>>>> -static int pps_subpic_less_than_one_tile_slice(VVCPPS *pps, const
>> VVCSPS
>>>> *sps, const int i, const int tx, const int ty, int *off, bool
>>>> *tile_in_subpic)
>>>> +static int pps_subpic_less_than_one_tile_slice(VVCPPS *pps, const
>> VVCSPS
>>>> *sps, const int i, const int tx, const int ty, int *off)
>>>>  {
>>>> -    const int subpic_bottom = sps->r->sps_subpic_ctu_top_left_y[i] +
>>>> sps->r->sps_subpic_height_minus1[i];
>>>> -    const int tile_bottom = pps->row_bd[ty] +
>> pps->r->row_height_val[ty]
>>>> - 1;
>>>> -    const bool is_final_subpic_in_tile = subpic_bottom == tile_bottom;
>>>> -
>>>> -    if (is_final_subpic_in_tile && !mark_tile_as_used(tile_in_subpic,
>> tx,
>>>> ty, pps->r->num_tile_columns))
>>>> -        return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
>>>> -
>>>> -    pps->num_ctus_in_slice[i] = pps_add_ctus(pps, off,
>>>> +    const int ret = pps_add_ctus(pps, off,
>>>>          sps->r->sps_subpic_ctu_top_left_x[i],
>>>> sps->r->sps_subpic_ctu_top_left_y[i],
>>>>          sps->r->sps_subpic_width_minus1[i] + 1,
>>>> sps->r->sps_subpic_height_minus1[i] + 1);
>>>> +    if (ret < 0)
>>>> +        return ret;
>>>>
>>>> +    pps->num_ctus_in_slice[i] = ret;
>>>>      return 0;
>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>>  static int pps_subpic_one_or_more_tiles_slice(VVCPPS *pps, const int
>>>> tile_x, const int tile_y, const int x_end, const int y_end,
>>>> -    const int i, int *off, bool *tile_in_subpic)
>>>> +    const int i, int *off)
>>>>  {
>>>>      for (int ty = tile_y; ty < y_end; ty++) {
>>>>          for (int tx = tile_x; tx < x_end; tx++) {
>>>> -            if (!mark_tile_as_used(tile_in_subpic, tx, ty,
>>>> pps->r->num_tile_columns))
>>>> -                return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
>>>> -
>>>> -            pps->num_ctus_in_slice[i] += pps_add_ctus(pps, off,
>>>> +            const int ret = pps_add_ctus(pps, off,
>>>>                  pps->col_bd[tx], pps->row_bd[ty],
>>>>                  pps->r->col_width_val[tx], pps->r->row_height_val[ty]);
>>>> +            if (ret < 0)
>>>> +                return ret;
>>>> +
>>>> +            pps->num_ctus_in_slice[i] += ret;
>>>>          }
>>>>      }
>>>>      return 0;
>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>> -static int pps_subpic_slice(VVCPPS *pps, const VVCSPS *sps, const int
>> i,
>>>> int *off, bool *tile_in_subpic)
>>>> +static int pps_subpic_slice(VVCPPS *pps, const VVCSPS *sps, const int
>> i,
>>>> int *off)
>>>>  {
>>>>      int tx, ty, x_end, y_end;
>>>>
>>>> @@ -503,9 +493,9 @@ static int pps_subpic_slice(VVCPPS *pps, const
>> VVCSPS
>>>> *sps, const int i, int *of
>>>>
>>>>      subpic_tiles(&tx, &ty, &x_end, &y_end, sps, pps, i);
>>>>      if (ty + 1 == y_end && sps->r->sps_subpic_height_minus1[i] + 1 <
>>>> pps->r->row_height_val[ty])
>>>> -        return pps_subpic_less_than_one_tile_slice(pps, sps, i, tx, ty,
>>>> off, tile_in_subpic);
>>>> +        return pps_subpic_less_than_one_tile_slice(pps, sps, i, tx, ty,
>>>> off);
>>>>      else
>>>> -        return pps_subpic_one_or_more_tiles_slice(pps, tx, ty, x_end,
>>>> y_end, i, off, tile_in_subpic);
>>>> +        return pps_subpic_one_or_more_tiles_slice(pps, tx, ty, x_end,
>>>> y_end, i, off);
>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>>  static int pps_single_slice_per_subpic(VVCPPS *pps, const VVCSPS *sps,
>>>> int *off)
>>>> @@ -513,18 +503,11 @@ static int pps_single_slice_per_subpic(VVCPPS
>> *pps,
>>>> const VVCSPS *sps, int *off)
>>>>      if (!sps->r->sps_subpic_info_present_flag) {
>>>>          pps_single_slice_picture(pps, off);
>>>>      } else {
>>>> -        bool tile_in_subpic[VVC_MAX_TILES_PER_AU] = {0};
>>>>          for (int i = 0; i < pps->r->pps_num_slices_in_pic_minus1 + 1;
>>>> i++) {
>>>> -            const int ret = pps_subpic_slice(pps, sps, i, off,
>>>> tile_in_subpic);
>>>> +            const int ret = pps_subpic_slice(pps, sps, i, off);
>>>>              if (ret < 0)
>>>>                  return ret;
>>>>          }
>>>> -
>>>> -        // We only use tile_in_subpic to check that the subpictures
>> don't
>>>> overlap
>>>> -        // here; we don't use tile_in_subpic to check that the
>>>> subpictures cover
>>>> -        // every tile.  It is possible to avoid doing this work here
>>>> because the
>>>> -        // covering property of subpictures is already guaranteed by
>> the
>>>> mechanisms
>>>> -        // which check every CTU belongs to a slice.
>>>>      }
>>>>      return 0;
>>>>  }
>>>> @@ -538,9 +521,12 @@ static int pps_one_tile_slices(VVCPPS *pps, const
>> int
>>>> tile_idx, int i, int *off)
>>>>      ctu_xy(&rx, &ry, tile_x, tile_y, pps);
>>>>      ctu_y_end = ry + r->row_height_val[tile_y];
>>>>      while (ry < ctu_y_end) {
>>>> +        int ret;
>>>>          pps->slice_start_offset[i] = *off;
>>>> -        pps->num_ctus_in_slice[i] = pps_add_ctus(pps, off, rx, ry,
>>>> +        ret = pps_add_ctus(pps, off, rx, ry,
>>>>              r->col_width_val[tile_x], r->slice_height_in_ctus[i]);
>>>> +        av_assert2(ret >= 0);
>>>> +        pps->num_ctus_in_slice[i] = ret;
>>>>          ry += r->slice_height_in_ctus[i++];
>>>>      }
>>>>      i--;
>>>> @@ -557,13 +543,16 @@ static int pps_multi_tiles_slice(VVCPPS *pps,
>> const
>>>> int tile_idx, const int i, i
>>>>      pps->num_ctus_in_slice[i] = 0;
>>>>      for (int ty = tile_y; ty <= tile_y +
>>>> r->pps_slice_height_in_tiles_minus1[i]; ty++) {
>>>>          for (int tx = tile_x; tx <= tile_x +
>>>> r->pps_slice_width_in_tiles_minus1[i]; tx++) {
>>>> +            int ret;
>>>>              const int idx = ty * r->num_tile_columns + tx;
>>>>              if (tile_in_slice[idx])
>>>>                  return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
>>>>              tile_in_slice[idx] = true;
>>>>              ctu_xy(&rx, &ry, tx, ty, pps);
>>>> -            pps->num_ctus_in_slice[i] += pps_add_ctus(pps, off, rx, ry,
>>>> +            ret = pps_add_ctus(pps, off, rx, ry,
>>>>                  r->col_width_val[tx], r->row_height_val[ty]);
>>>> +            av_assert2(ret >= 0);
>>>> +            pps->num_ctus_in_slice[i] += ret;
>>>>          }
>>>>      }
>>>>
>>>> @@ -610,8 +599,10 @@ static void pps_no_rect_slice(VVCPPS* pps)
>>>>
>>>>      for (int tile_y = 0; tile_y < r->num_tile_rows; tile_y++) {
>>>>          for (int tile_x = 0; tile_x < r->num_tile_columns; tile_x++) {
>>>> +            int ret;
>>>>              ctu_xy(&rx, &ry, tile_x, tile_y, pps);
>>>> -            pps_add_ctus(pps, &off, rx, ry, r->col_width_val[tile_x],
>>>> r->row_height_val[tile_y]);
>>>> +            ret = pps_add_ctus(pps, &off, rx, ry,
>>>> r->col_width_val[tile_x], r->row_height_val[tile_y]);
>>>> +            av_assert2(ret >= 0);
>>>>          }
>>>>      }
>>>>  }
>>>> --
>>>> 2.47.0
>>>>
>>>>
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