Introduce av_realloc_f.

av_realloc_f helps avoiding memory-leaks in typical uses of realloc.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas George <nicolas.george@normalesup.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libavutil/mem.h b/libavutil/mem.h
index ffdbb98d94..179e12f32f 100644
--- a/libavutil/mem.h
+++ b/libavutil/mem.h
@@ -88,6 +88,16 @@ void *av_malloc(size_t size) av_malloc_attrib av_alloc_size(1);
 void *av_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size) av_alloc_size(2);
 
 /**
+ * Allocate or reallocate a block of memory.
+ * This function does the same thing as av_realloc, except:
+ * - It takes two arguments and checks the result of the multiplication for
+ *   integer overflow.
+ * - It frees the input block in case of failure, thus avoiding the memory
+ *   leak with the classic "buf = realloc(buf); if (!buf) return -1;".
+ */
+void *av_realloc_f(void *ptr, size_t nelem, size_t elsize);
+
+/**
  * Free a memory block which has been allocated with av_malloc(z)() or
  * av_realloc().
  * @param ptr Pointer to the memory block which should be freed.