On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 12:16:09 +0100 Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:
> Now, please answer this very specific question: > > If someone were to REMOVE ALL AND EVERY use of > av_packet_merge_side_data() and av_packet_split_side_data(), what would > be the actual bad consequences? Simply that API users, which pass only the packet data itself from libavformat to libavcodec, will break in cases where the side data is "required". The argument is that such API users exist because they cannot pass the AVPacket reference along, but have to go through their own layers, which can transport only the raw packet data itself and maybe timestamps. > But before you start with fuzzing or anything similar, let me stop you: > fuzzing exposes bugs that can be triggered by crafted inputs. If fuzzing > can not trigger it, that means the bug does not exist, period. I think the argument is that it's easier to fuzz side-data related things if side data can be accidentally read from raw packets that look like they have merged side data. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
