uridecodebin: Don't force floating reference for future reusable decodebin

uridecodebin assumes that refcount of decodebins stored in pending_decodebins
are floating but it might not be true in case that refcount of the decodebin
was touched in other places. To avoid the floating refcount issue,
hold strong reference.

Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/-/merge_requests/1113>

diff --git a/gst/playback/gsturidecodebin.c b/gst/playback/gsturidecodebin.c
index 3837b25..dc6984d 100644 (file)
--- a/gst/playback/gsturidecodebin.c
+++ b/gst/playback/gsturidecodebin.c
@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ struct _GstURIDecodeBin
   GstElement *queue;
   GstElement *typefind;
   guint have_type_id;           /* have-type signal id from typefind */
+  /* without holding ref */
   GSList *decodebins;
+  /* Holding strong reference to decodebin */
   GSList *pending_decodebins;
   GHashTable *streams;
   guint numpads;
@@ -1690,8 +1692,6 @@ remove_decoders (GstURIDecodeBin * bin, gboolean force)
       caps = DEFAULT_CAPS;
       g_object_set (decoder, "caps", caps, NULL);
       gst_caps_unref (caps);
-      /* make it freshly floating again */
-      g_object_force_floating (G_OBJECT (decoder));
 
       bin->pending_decodebins =
           g_slist_prepend (bin->pending_decodebins, decoder);
@@ -1810,6 +1810,7 @@ static GstElement *
 make_decoder (GstURIDecodeBin * decoder)
 {
   GstElement *decodebin;
+  gboolean unref_dbin = FALSE;
 
   /* re-use pending decodebin */
   if (decoder->pending_decodebins) {
@@ -1818,6 +1819,7 @@ make_decoder (GstURIDecodeBin * decoder)
     decodebin = (GstElement *) first->data;
     decoder->pending_decodebins =
         g_slist_delete_link (decoder->pending_decodebins, first);
+    unref_dbin = TRUE;
   } else {
     GST_LOG_OBJECT (decoder, "making new decodebin");
 
@@ -1900,6 +1902,11 @@ make_decoder (GstURIDecodeBin * decoder)
   gst_bin_add (GST_BIN_CAST (decoder), decodebin);
 
   decoder->decodebins = g_slist_prepend (decoder->decodebins, decodebin);
+  /* Unref if this decodebin came from our pending_decodebins,
+   * since we were holding strong reference to decodebin and gst_bin_add()
+   * will increase refcount */
+  if (unref_dbin)
+    gst_object_unref (decodebin);
 
   return decodebin;