[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] avformat/sapenc: fix leak in sap_write_header()

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 10:20:45AM +0800, Lidong Yan wrote:
> In sap_write_header(), ff_format_set_url() assign new allocated new_url
> to contexts[i]->url but forgot to free it later. Add for loop to free
> contexts[i]->url before av_free(context).
> 
> To prevent from writing free-for-loop in every return point, replace
> `return 0` with `ret = 0` so normal execution can fall through fail
> code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <502024330056 at smail.nju.edu.cn>
> ---
>  libavformat/sapenc.c | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libavformat/sapenc.c b/libavformat/sapenc.c
> index 87a834a8d8..0567a754e2 100644
> --- a/libavformat/sapenc.c
> +++ b/libavformat/sapenc.c
> @@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ static int sap_write_header(AVFormatContext *s)
>          ret = AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
>          goto fail;
>      }
> -    av_freep(&contexts);
>      av_log(s, AV_LOG_VERBOSE, "SDP:\n%s\n", &sap->ann[pos]);
>      pos += strlen(&sap->ann[pos]);
>      sap->ann_size = pos;
> @@ -244,11 +243,17 @@ static int sap_write_header(AVFormatContext *s)
>          goto fail;
>      }
>  
> -    return 0;
> +    ret = 0;
>  
>  fail:
> -    av_free(contexts);
> -    sap_write_close(s);
> +    if (contexts) {
> +        for (i = 0; i < s->nb_streams; i++)
> +            if (contexts[i])
> +                av_free(contexts[i]->url);
> +        av_free(contexts);
> +    }

contexts is an array of AVFormatContext, this does not look right
also freeing the url of the AVFormatContexts that have been stored
in priv_data a few lines earlier looks wrong

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