On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:24:05PM -0800, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Laurent Aimar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:30:38PM -0800, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>     > +#if !UNCHECKED_BITSTREAM_READER
>     > +    s->size_in_bits_plus1 = bit_size + 1;
>     > +#endif
>      One extra bit will ensure that get_bit_count() will return < 0 value,
>     but it does not ensure that get_bits/show_bits like functions or macros
>     return 0 on overread, and so it is incompatible with get_vlc* functions
>     (you will have an infinite loop, at least it was like that when I last
>     check this solution).
> 
> 
> Why not?
Please, read the thread
 "[libav-devel] [PATCH] Checked get_bits.h functions to prevent overread"
as it contains some explanations and warnings about making a suitable
safe get_bits implementation (for existing usage of it).

For the get_vlc* case, the functions don't check for overread as it expects
the buffer to be padded with enough 0 bits (FF_INPUT_BUFFER_PADDING_SIZE
bytes), and those zeros will ensure that get_vlc() will abort on reading
an invalid VLC code.

Regards,

-- 
fenrir

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