[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/8] avutil/mem: Handle fast allocations near UINT_MAX properly

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Andreas Rheinhardt (2022-07-05 22:09:37)
> av_fast_realloc and av_fast_mallocz? store the size of
> the objects they allocate in an unsigned. Yet they overallocate
> and currently they can allocate more than UINT_MAX bytes
> in case a user has requested a size of about UINT_MAX * 16 / 17
> or more if SIZE_MAX > UINT_MAX. In this case it is impossible
> to store the true size of the buffer via the unsigned*;
> future requests are likely to use the (re)allocation codepath
> even if the buffer is actually large enough because of
> the incorrect size.
> 
> Fix this by ensuring that the actually allocated size
> always fits into an unsigned. (This entails erroring out
> in case the user requested more than UINT_MAX.)

I really dislike this av_fast_* naming.

Given that all these functions use unsigned int for something that
should really be size_t, how about we deprecate them all and replace
with something that has a sane naming convention and uses proper types?

-- 
Anton Khirnov