Mutation testing over src/mux/. No production change — 49 survivors
killed, all proven red before green.
The MP4 composition-time chain was entirely unconstrained: VideoTiming::ctts,
build_ctts and parse_ctts could each return a constant and the suite
stayed green. Confirmed on HEAD: build_ctts -> vec![] passes all 1,220
mux tests. A demuxed B-frame title presenting in decode order would
have shipped.
The cause is a test whose name asserts coverage its body does not
deliver — stts_and_ctts_expand builds an stts box and never touches
ctts, and write_then_read_round_trip asserts sample sizes and keyframe
flags but not one PTS. Same shape as the set_speed forwarding finding,
different disguise.
mlp_num_substreams / mlp_substr_header_size: every TrueHD fixture in
the crate uses one substream and no extraword, so both could return a
constant and agree with all of them. These position mlp_parity_ok's
window over the AU header, so a constant mis-windows the parity check
on exactly the multi-substream AUs that carry 7.1 and Atmos.
CodecPrivate absent vs empty: mkv.rs writes Some(bytes) verbatim and
omits the element on None (RFC 9559 5.1.4.1.24), so a zero-length Some
emits a track header asserting the config IS empty. Four parsers could
return Some(vec![]) before any frame.
Also: mandatory ISO/IEC 14496-12 boxes (tkhd, vmhd, smhd, dinf, mdhd)
could each build empty; HEVC num_extra_slice_header_bits (H.265 7.3.2.3)
was never non-zero in any fixture, so the slice-type offset skip was
unexercised; chapter names from the disc go straight into
<ChapterString> and the & escape must run first; a stray 0x47 in a
payload must not latch a TS resync.
Documented as equivalent rather than killed: CodecParser::flush and the
three parser flush bodies that differ from the mutant only by a tracing
call, and DropTally::log_summary.
mp4 demuxer (untrusted input): bound every allocation sized from a box
field (stsz/stco/stsc counts, stts/ctts run-lengths, per-sample and moov
sizes, plus an absolute cap so a sparse file can't inflate file_len);
guard the parse_stsd slice and a zero mdhd timescale; cap track count so
the per-track PID can't overflow; rewrite read_moov to handle size==0 /
size<8 / 64-bit largesize; parse esds/AudioSpecificConfig for AAC; write
tkhd duration in the movie timescale.
decrypt: resolve_mux_key_map now fails loud on an extent no key can
classify instead of inheriting the previous extent's key, so a keymap
never silently carries a wrong key; the sweep/patch key-fetch recovery
fails loud when a unit is still unresolved after the retry.
AACS: reject inverted forensic segments in both range builders; compare
the forensic index in u16 space so an out-of-range value can't truncate
onto a valid u8 index. RECOVERED_ERROR no longer latches the damage zone,
preserving the 30s wedge cooldown for a following hard error.
audio: AAC/MP2/MP3/FLAC carry the last PTS across a PES with no timestamp;
the DTS-HD extension-sync search is bounded to after the core; the MP4
16.16 sample-rate field saturates. demux_sink records the video reference
before the kind filter so audio:// / sub:// keep multi-clip PTS continuity
and the DELAY tag.
Remove a dead error variant and the AACS-unsupported-video code; codec
comments cite the primary format specs; assorted doc/naming fixes and
regression tests throughout.
Three TrueHD state-machine fixes from an adversarial audit:
- A corrupt access unit drops forward to the next major sync, but only
the individually-verified corruption now feeds the whole-track poison
verdict; the resync run is collateral. A couple of transient errors can
no longer poison and discard an otherwise-good multi-hour track. The
shared drop tally gains a verified/collateral split for this.
- The per-AU PTS rate is refined only from a CRC-validated major sync, so
a corrupt major sync whose rate nibble decodes to another rate family
can no longer shift the resumed audio — a drop stays a silence gap.
- The resync clears only on a CRC-validated major sync, never on a runt
too short to hold and validate its header.
A damaged audio access unit is now dropped rather than muxed as a
decoder-choking glitch. Sync is preserved — a drop becomes a silence
gap, never a shift — and every drop is logged. Detection is per-codec,
each mirroring the format's authoritative integrity check:
DTS core-header validity gates
AC-3/E-AC-3 native frame CRC-16 + bitstream-id range
FLAC whole-frame CRC-16 residue
MP2/MP3 header sanity + free-format reject
AAC-ADTS header sanity (raw AAC passes through untouched)
TrueHD/MLP major-sync CRC-16 + AU parity; corrupt AUs drop forward
to the next major sync, since decode state carries
across access units
LPCM and video are excluded by design (no in-frame integrity data;
inter-frame prediction). A shared DropTally handles counting, logging,
and a whole-track fallback for a mostly-undecodable track.
Matthew Jackson