[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] swscale: avoid overread in planar2x

[Ramiro Polla]

Hi,

The MMX2/3dnow code in planar2x in rgb2rgb currently reads one byte
prior to the source buffer. This leads to a crash on Windows and Mac
OS X when the buffer is allocated on the beginning of a page. This
should also be a problem on Linux but I haven't seen many crashes
because of overreading...

It does involve a 0.8% slowdown though. If this slowdown is not
acceptable, I wonder if we can add a configure option that will enable
the user to avoid overreads at the cost of suffering a little slowdown
(like --enable-avoid-overreads). There are other places that assume a
small overread is not a problem, but end up crashing on Windows and
Mac OS X.

Ramiro Polla
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