mem: fix pointer pointer aliasing violations

This uses explicit memory copying to read and write pointer to pointers
of arbitrary object types. This works provided that the architecture
uses the same representation for all pointer types (the previous code
made that assumption already anyway).

Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/libavutil/mem.c b/libavutil/mem.c
index b7bb65c139..15c28808c1 100644
--- a/libavutil/mem.c
+++ b/libavutil/mem.c
@@ -139,21 +139,22 @@ void *av_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
 
 int av_reallocp(void *ptr, size_t size)
 {
-    void **ptrptr = ptr;
-    void *ret;
+    void *val;
 
     if (!size) {
         av_freep(ptr);
         return 0;
     }
-    ret = av_realloc(*ptrptr, size);
 
-    if (!ret) {
+    memcpy(&val, ptr, sizeof(val));
+    val = av_realloc(val, size);
+
+    if (!val) {
         av_freep(ptr);
         return AVERROR(ENOMEM);
     }
 
-    *ptrptr = ret;
+    memcpy(ptr, &val, sizeof(val));
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -166,20 +167,23 @@ void *av_realloc_array(void *ptr, size_t nmemb, size_t size)
 
 int av_reallocp_array(void *ptr, size_t nmemb, size_t size)
 {
-    void **ptrptr = ptr;
-    void *ret;
+    void *val;
+
     if (!size || nmemb >= INT_MAX / size)
         return AVERROR(ENOMEM);
     if (!nmemb) {
         av_freep(ptr);
         return 0;
     }
-    ret = av_realloc(*ptrptr, nmemb * size);
-    if (!ret) {
+
+    memcpy(&val, ptr, sizeof(val));
+    val = av_realloc(val, nmemb * size);
+    if (!val) {
         av_freep(ptr);
         return AVERROR(ENOMEM);
     }
-    *ptrptr = ret;
+
+    memcpy(ptr, &val, sizeof(val));
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -197,9 +201,11 @@ void av_free(void *ptr)
 
 void av_freep(void *arg)
 {
-    void **ptr = (void **)arg;
-    av_free(*ptr);
-    *ptr = NULL;
+    void *val;
+
+    memcpy(&val, arg, sizeof(val));
+    memcpy(arg, &(void *){ NULL }, sizeof(val));
+    av_free(val);
 }
 
 void *av_mallocz(size_t size)