On Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 10:27:55PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 09:10:33PM +0200, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
> > Michael Niedermayer:
> > > Fixes: CID1591924 Uninitialized scalar variable
> > > Fixes: CID1591938 Uninitialized scalar variable
> > > 
> > > Sponsored-by: Sovereign Tech Fund
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
> > > ---
> > >  libavcodec/dxva2.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/libavcodec/dxva2.c b/libavcodec/dxva2.c
> > > index 1a33c8bbac7..22ecd5acafe 100644
> > > --- a/libavcodec/dxva2.c
> > > +++ b/libavcodec/dxva2.c
> > > @@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ int ff_dxva2_common_end_frame(AVCodecContext *avctx, AVFrame *frame,
> > >  #endif
> > >      DECODER_BUFFER_DESC             *buffer = NULL, *buffer_slice = NULL;
> > >      int result, runs = 0;
> > > -    HRESULT hr;
> > > +    HRESULT hr = -1;
> > >      unsigned type;
> > >      FFDXVASharedContext *sctx = DXVA_SHARED_CONTEXT(avctx);
> > >  
> > 
> > It seems to me that this (and other patches in this set) is not a real
> > fix of a bug. These functions are called either with a D3D11 pix fmt or
> > with AV_PIX_FMT_DXVA2_VLD, so these variables are initialized before
> > their use.
> 
> If they are called with another pixel format then its exploitable
> maybe that cannot happen currently
> 
> But if or if not. Initializing these variables makes the code simply
> more robust and also if it happens a NULL is easier to debug than
> uninitialized variables. The assumtions that need to be true for
> them to be initialized are not entirely trivial.
> 
> ill drop the patches from what i wanted to apply currently but i still
> think they should be applied.

> I can change the commit message if you can suggest something else ?

ping
does anyone object to the patches ?
does someone want a different commit message ? if so which ?

I will mark these issues as false positives, as they technically are

thx

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