[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavu/hash: make all functions work gracefully with NULL.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:59:08PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le primidi 1er floréal, an CCXXII, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
> > does it allow to simplify any existing code ?
> 
> This one, probably not: ignoring errors is still evil, and should be
> discouraged / fixed. I would say it is rather a matter of making bugs
> (unchecked calls) have less serious consequences: empty hashes instead of
> NULL dereference. OTOH, I believe a NULL dereference is not exploitable and
> is detectable immediately, which is good, while an empty hash is hiding the
> bug, and may cause security concerns.
> 
> So I do not know if it is a good idea or not. It was just easy to write
> while waiting on compilation.

i think null checks should be added to all free/dealloc functions
so they can saftely be called twice or if initial allocation faild
as well as anything where it simplifies code

for other things i dunno


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