Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#5971 closed defect (duplicate)

ffserver: Segmentation fault when streaming RTSP with ffserver (Always)

Reported by: Sooman Jeong Owned by:
Priority: important Component: ffserver
Version: git-master Keywords: codecpar regression crash SIGSEGV
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

When I try to stream a video via ffserver, it always terminate with Setmentation fault due to NULL pointer access.

I run ffserver with following configuration.

#Server configuration


HTTPPort 8090
HTTPBindAddress 0.0.0.0
RTSPPort 8091
RTSPBindAddress 0.0.0.0
MaxClients 1000
MaxBandwidth 10000
CustomLog -
<Feed feed1.ffm>
File /tmp/feed1.ffm
ACL Allow 127.0.0.1
</Feed>
<Stream test1.mp4>
Feed feed1.ffm
Format rtp
VideoFrameRate 30
VideoBitRate 5000
VideoSize 640x480
VideoQMin 3
VideoQMax 31
NoAudio
NoDefaults
</Stream>

And run ffmpeg in order to send video feed to server as follows.
# ffmpeg -f v4l2 -s 640x480 -r 30 -i /dev/video0 http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm

Whenever I played this stream on remote PC, ffserver always terminates with Segmentation fault.

#GDB information
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb5cf9e38 in memcpy (len=<optimized out>, src=<optimized out>,

dest=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/bits/string3.h:53

53 return builtin_memcpy_chk (dest, src, len, bos0 (dest));
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb5cf9e38 in memcpy (
len=<optimized out>, src=<optimized out>,

dest=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/bits/string3.h:53

#1 av_freep (arg=0xc) at libavutil/mem.c:248
#2 0xb6182a86 in codec_parameters_reset (par=par@entry=0x0)

at libavcodec/utils.c:4022

#3 0xb618876a in avcodec_parameters_from_context (par=0x0, codec=0x7f5f7900)

at libavcodec/utils.c:4082

#4 0x7f5b9848 in prepare_sdp_description (stream=0x7f5f63c0,

pbuffer=0xbea2db74, my_ip=...) at ffserver.c:2999

#5 0x7f5ba9e6 in rtsp_cmd_describe (

url=0xbea2f8c4 "rtsp://12.23.66.28:8091/test1.mp4", c=0x7f600a00)
at ffserver.c:3059

#6 rtsp_parse_request (c=0x7f600a00) at ffserver.c:2935
#7 0x7f5b2092 in handle_connection (c=0x7f600a00) at ffserver.c:1008
#8 http_server () at ffserver.c:777
#9 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ffserver.c:4032

From running git bisect, I found that below commit cause this issue.

commit 9200514ad8717c63f82101dc394f4378854325bf
Author: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
Date: Wed Jun 18 20:42:52 2014 +0200

lavf: replace AVStream.codec with AVStream.codecpar


Currently, AVStream contains an embedded AVCodecContext instance, which
is used by demuxers to export stream parameters to the caller and by
muxers to receive stream parameters from the caller. It is also used
internally as the codec context that is passed to parsers.


In addition, it is also widely used by the callers as the decoding (when
demuxer) or encoding (when muxing) context, though this has been
officially discouraged since Libav 11.


There are multiple important problems with this approach:

  • the fields in AVCodecContext are in general one of
    • stream parameters
    • codec options
    • codec state
    However, it's not clear which ones are which. It is consequently unclear which fields are a demuxer allowed to set or a muxer allowed to read. This leads to erratic behaviour depending on whether decoding or encoding is being performed or not (and whether it uses the AVStream embedded codec context).
  • various synchronization issues arising from the fact that the same context is used by several different APIs (muxers/demuxers, parsers, bitstream filters and encoders/decoders) simultaneously, with there being no clear rules for who can modify what and the different processes being typically delayed with respect to each other.
  • avformat_find_stream_info() making it necessary to support opening and closing a single codec context multiple times, thus complicating the semantics of freeing various allocated objects in the codec context.


Those problems are resolved by replacing the AVStream embedded codec
context with a newly added AVCodecParameters instance, which stores only
the stream parameters exported by the demuxers or read by the muxers.

This issue is same with https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5869

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Carl Eugen Hoyos, 7 years ago

Keywords: codecpar regression crash added; ffserver removed
Priority: criticalimportant
Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed
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