typefind: Avoid messing pads activation

Typefind might mess up pads modes (pull/push) if a
downstream element is plugged and its pads activated
in 'step 2' of typefind pads activation.

This happens because the following steps don't check
if we already emitted typefound due to upstream setting
caps on buffers being pulled in the typefind helpers.

Avoid that by checking if typefound is already emmited.

Fixes #608036

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/elements/gsttypefindelement.c b/plugins/elements/gsttypefindelement.c
index 2073006f64..8c401e5372 100644
--- a/plugins/elements/gsttypefindelement.c
+++ b/plugins/elements/gsttypefindelement.c
@@ -951,6 +951,18 @@ gst_type_find_element_activate (GstPad * pad)
     }
   }
 
+  /* the type find helpers might have triggered setcaps here (due to upstream)
+   * setting caps on buffers, which emits typefound signal and an element
+   * could have been linked and have its pads activated
+   *
+   * If we deactivate the pads in the following steps we might mess up
+   * downstream element. We should prevent that.
+   */
+  if (typefind->mode == MODE_NORMAL) {
+    /* this means we already emitted typefound */
+    goto really_done;
+  }
+
   /* 3 */
   gst_pad_activate_pull (pad, FALSE);
 
@@ -973,8 +985,9 @@ done:
   /* 7 */
   g_signal_emit (typefind, gst_type_find_element_signals[HAVE_TYPE],
       0, probability, found_caps);
-  gst_caps_unref (found_caps);
   typefind->mode = MODE_NORMAL;
+really_done:
+  gst_caps_unref (found_caps);
 
   /* 8 */
   if (gst_pad_is_active (pad))