[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mfenc: Use dlopen instead of LoadLibrary for loading mfplat.dll

[Martin Storsjö]

On Wed, 25 May 2022, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:

> On 25/05/2022 23:35, Martin Storsjö wrote:
>> The dlopen wrapper contains code to make loading libraries safer,
>> to avoid loading a potentially malicious DLL with the same name.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st>
>> ---
>>   libavcodec/mfenc.c | 5 +++--
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/libavcodec/mfenc.c b/libavcodec/mfenc.c
>> index 17d0ec60bd..ab0b6b4145 100644
>> --- a/libavcodec/mfenc.c
>> +++ b/libavcodec/mfenc.c
>> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>>   #include "libavutil/time.h"
>>   #include "codec_internal.h"
>>   #include "internal.h"
>> +#include "compat/w32dlfcn.h"
>>     typedef struct MFContext {
>>       AVClass *av_class;
>> @@ -1158,7 +1159,7 @@ static int mf_load_library(AVCodecContext *avctx)
>>       MFContext *c = avctx->priv_data;
>>     #if !HAVE_UWP
>> -    c->library = LoadLibraryA("mfplat.dll");
>> +    c->library = dlopen("mfplat.dll", 0);
>>         if (!c->library) {
>>           av_log(c, AV_LOG_ERROR, "DLL mfplat.dll failed to open\n");
>> @@ -1191,7 +1192,7 @@ static int mf_close(AVCodecContext *avctx)
>>       if (c->library)
>>           ff_free_mf(&c->functions, &c->mft);
>>   -    FreeLibrary(c->library);
>> +    dlclose(c->library);
>>       c->library = NULL;
>>   #else
>>       ff_free_mf(&c->functions, &c->mft);
>
> Very much a nit, given this code only ever runs on Windows, and dlsym is 
> just a literal define to GetProcAddress, but mixing 
> dlopen()+GetProcddress() like that looks kinda weird :D

Ah, yes, it's indeed best to keep it consistent.

// Martin