[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH][RFC]lavu/mem: Do not realloc in av_fast_alloc() if size == min_size

Carl Eugen Hoyos ceffmpeg at gmail.com
Sat Dec 30 19:02:29 EET 2017


2017-12-30 17:24 GMT+01:00 Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com>:
> On 12/30/2017 1:44 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> FFmpeg has an arbitrary allocation limit (2G iirc), av_fast_realloc()
>> increases the allocation even if the requested is equal the already
>> allocated size. I believe this can lead to unnecessary OOM (no
>> testcase) if the requested (and already allocated) size is close to
>> our limit.
>> Additionally, this avoids an over-allocation for the mov stts patch I just sent.
>> Attached patch changes the behaviour introduced 15 years ago.

> I'm not aware of such a limit within the libraries (there is no allocation
> tracking)?

I just confirmed the ("arbitrary") limit defaults to INT_MAX which at least
on some systems is 2G as claimed above.

Carl Eugen


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