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enricobuehler 3fac1a6da1 fix(encode/linux): stop the capability probes racing each other's libav log level
Every capability probe drops libav's log level to AV_LOG_FATAL around an encoder open it
expects to fail, then restores what was there before. That level is one process-global int
and the probes genuinely overlap — they are reached both from `/serverinfo` and from session
bring-up. Two overlapping save/restore pairs interleave as get(INFO) → get(FATAL) →
set(INFO) → set(FATAL), and the process is then pinned at AV_LOG_FATAL permanently: every
later libav diagnostic silently dropped, including the ones you want when a stream fails to
open later on.

Replaces the four hand-rolled save/restore pairs with one RAII guard over a single shared
mutex. The audit filed two sites; there are four — the NVENC 4:4:4 and 10-bit probes in
`linux/mod.rs` and both VAAPI probes, which is why the lock has to be shared across the two
modules rather than kept local to either.

Being RAII also closes a smaller hole the old shape had: the restore was a statement after
the open, so any early return added to those functions later would have leaked the quiet
level. Now it cannot.

The guard is poison-tolerant — a probe that panicked mid-window has already restored the
level through `Drop`, so refusing the lock forever afterwards would be strictly worse than
proceeding. It is not re-entrant, which is safe here because no probe body reaches another
probe (they only call encoder-open helpers); that invariant is written down at the type.

Serialising the probes costs nothing measurable: they are process-once behind their caches
and each already pays for a real encoder open.

Verified with the canonical Linux gate (docker linux/amd64): fmt, clippy --all-targets at
default and at nvenc,vulkan-encode,pyrowave, and the pf-encode test leg (37 passed).
2026-07-25 13:00:39 +02:00
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