PointCloudLibrary / PointCloudLibrary/pcl

Kinfu MarchingCubes writes unbounded data to hardcode sized buffer

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@haritha-j is already working on this.

Since Jun 8, 2020.

help wanted kind: bug module: gpu skill: cuda status: stale
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Description

pcl::gpu::MarchingCubes::run:

  if (triangles_buffer.empty())
    triangles_buffer.create(DEFAULT_TRIANGLES_BUFFER_SIZE);
DEFAULT_TRIANGLES_BUFFER_SIZE = 2 * 1000 * 1000 * POINTS_PER_TRIANGLE

marching_cubes.cu/store_point():

triangles_buffer[index] = ...; // index is dependent on how many voxels we have

I suggest changing DEFAULT_TRIANGLES_BUFFER_SIZE to WHY_WOULD_ANYONE_EVER_HAVE_MORE_TRIANGLES, that will make the out of bounds crash on the GPU much easier to find.

I also like how it starts with 2 * - that looks almost like somebody thought "hmm for some reason the code works if I make this bigger".

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