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2007.11.02 20:26 "Recent bug fixes in CVS head", by Frank Warmerdam
Folks, I've made some non-trivial bug fixes in libtiff CVS head that I'm a bit nervous about, so I'm reporting them here. Basically, there was a bug reported with GDAL updating a predictor=2 based LZW file "in place". In working through this I found a number of problems. Some core problems with the predictor stuff not working in mixed read/write access on a file. But also problems with the rewrite tiles in place logic (easy to corrupt the file), and a weird issue in tif_dirwrite.c with BEENWRITING being set, but if the last action was a read then _rawcc was nonzero and the code would append this read-buffer data under the assumption it was an unflushed write buffer. The changelog entries look like this: 2007-11-02 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com> * tif_write.c: Rip out the fancy logic in TIFFAppendToStrip() for establishing if an existing tile can be rewritten to the same location by comparing the current size to all the other blocks in the same directory. This is dangerous in many situations and can easily corrupt a file. (observed in esoteric GDAL situation that's hard to document). This change involves leaving the stripbytecount[] values unaltered till TIFFAppendToStrip(). Now we only write a block back to the same location it used to be at if the new data is the same size or smaller - otherwise we move it to the end of file. * tif_dirwrite.c: Try to avoid writing out a full readbuffer of tile data when writing the directory just because we have BEENWRITING at some point in the past. This was causing odd junk to be written out in a tile of data when a single tile had an interleaving of reading and writing with reading last. (highlighted by gdal autotest/gcore/tif_write.py test 7. * tif_predict.c: use working buffer in PredictorEncodeTile to avoid modifying callers buffer. http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1965 * tif_predict.c/h: more fixes related to last item, keeping a distinct pfunc for encode and decode cases as these were getting mixed up sometimes. http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1948 2007-11-01 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com> * tif_predict.c/h, tif_lzw.c, tif_zip.c: Improvements so that predictor based encoding and decoding works in read-write update mode properly. http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1948 Andrey, I think you wrote the "can we write a tile back to it's old location" logic in TIFFAppendToStrip() that looked like this: if (td->td_stripoffset[strip] == 0 || tif->tif_curoff == 0) { /* * No current offset, set the current strip. */ assert(td->td_nstrips > 0); if (td->td_stripoffset[strip] != 0) { /* * Prevent overlapping of the data chunks. We need * this to enable in place updating of the compressed * images. Larger blocks will be moved at the end of * the file without any optimization of the spare * space, so such scheme is not too much effective. */ if (td->td_stripbytecountsorted) { if (strip == td->td_nstrips - 1 || td->td_stripoffset[strip + 1] < td->td_stripoffset[strip] + cc) { td->td_stripoffset[strip] = TIFFSeekFile(tif,0, SEEK_END); td->td_stripbytecountsorted = 0; } } else { uint32 i; for (i = 0; i < td->td_nstrips; i++) { if (td->td_stripoffset[i] > td->td_stripoffset[strip] && td->td_stripoffset[i] < td->td_stripoffset[strip] + cc) { td->td_stripoffset[strip] = TIFFSeekFile(tif, 0, SEEK_END); } } } if (!SeekOK(tif, td->td_stripoffset[strip])) { TIFFErrorExt(tif->tif_clientdata, module, "Seek error at scanline %lu", (unsigned long)tif->tif_row); return (0); } } else td->td_stripoffset[strip] = TIFFSeekFile(tif, 0, SEEK_END); tif->tif_curoff = td->td_stripoffset[strip]; } Based on problems I was experiencing, and an inspection of the code this seems like very risky logic. In particular, the collision checking only checks against other blocks from the same image - not against directory contents, or blocks of other images in the same file. Also, the "compare to every other block extent" logic could become prohibabitively expensive in large files with many strips/tiles. So I stripped this out and replaced it with: if (td->td_stripoffset[strip] == 0 || tif->tif_curoff == 0) { assert(td->td_nstrips > 0); if( td->td_stripbytecount[strip] != 0 && td->td_stripoffset[strip] != 0 && td->td_stripbytecount[strip] >= (uint64) cc ) { /* * There is already tile data on disk, and the new tile * data we have to will fit in the same space. The only * aspect of this that is risky is that there could be * more data to append to this strip before we are done * depending on how we are getting called. */ if (!SeekOK(tif, td->td_stripoffset[strip])) { TIFFErrorExt(tif->tif_clientdata, module, "Seek error at scanline %lu", (unsigned long)tif->tif_row); return (0); } } else { /* * Seek to end of file, and set that as our location to * write this strip. */ td->td_stripoffset[strip] = TIFFSeekFile(tif, 0, SEEK_END); } tif->tif_curoff = td->td_stripoffset[strip]; /* * We are starting a fresh strip/tile, so set the size to zero. */ td->td_stripbytecount[strip] = 0; } This logic requires that stripbytecount[] comes into TIFFAppendToStrip() unaltered (it was previously being reset to zero in TIFFWriteEncodedStrip/Tile) and only rewrites a tile in the same location if the new tile data is the same size or smaller. I'm pretty sure this is how this code worked at one point years ago, yet you saw some reason to substantially restructure it. Can you recall why you did, and whether you see a problem with the approach I have implemented. So far I have only made the changes in libtiff CVS HEAD (libtiff4), but I think some/most of the changes will need to go back into libtiff 3.9 branch before the 3.9.0 release. I'm hoping for some feedback and testing before then though. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org