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From: Timo Rothenpieler <timo@rothenpieler.org>
To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/nvenc: fix NULL pointer dereference
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:05:37 +0100
Message-ID: <1dcc5fed-de31-6a17-34ab-20b0cfc6bbf0@rothenpieler.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tencent_6AAD25575303485BB3ECF365D5CFC90EAE05@qq.com>

On 28.02.2023 16:03, Zhao Zhili wrote:
> I can move the check from here to close(). assert is helpful if it can catch
> bugs during development. It doesn't help much here since this is a rare case
> which doesn't triggered during development.

Crashing with an assertion is still much better than dereferencing a 
NULL pointer.

I'll have a look at the calling function in a bit, to see if it can be 
refactored to never run into the chance of calling this function when 
not needed.
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      reply	other threads:[~2023-02-28 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-28 18:43 Zhao Zhili
2023-02-28 12:08 ` Steven Liu
2023-02-28 14:37 ` Timo Rothenpieler
2023-02-28 15:03   ` Zhao Zhili
2023-02-28 16:05     ` Timo Rothenpieler [this message]

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