[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavformat: Segfault on Apple HTTP Livestream playlist with unavailable hosts

[Takis Issaris]

2011/12/14 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 06:02:56PM +0100, Takis Issaris wrote:
>> 2011/12/14 Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org>:
>> > Le quartidi 24 frimaire, an CCXX, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
>> >> to me it looks convenient to just be able to call close/free without
>> >> needing to protect each call with checks. That is rather have the
>> >> checks inside the free/close function
>> >
>> > That is quite reasonable, indeed, and that is consistent with free for
>> > example.
>> >
>> > OTOH, obviously free_variant_list was doing something wrong, and it may be
>> > useful that someone who knows that stuff looks at it more carefully, because
>> > the change you just committed may be just hiding the real problem.
>>
>> I agree that in fact applehttp.c was and still is actually doing
>> something wrong for convenience: Namely, it is always invoking the
>> same cleanup function on failure, and in one specific case that fails
>> as it falsely assumed that you can close an AVFormatContext if the
>> context had only been allocated.
>
> If either of you knows of a bug, please report it. Iam happy to fix
> it.

The problem I was referring to,  is fixed by now, by Martin and merged
by you :-)


Met vriendelijke groeten,
Takis