From 610e664ba7cfe3af46125ed1b5a1184fccb51bcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: danscMax <153344025+danscMax@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 14:25:29 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] whisper : catch C++ exceptions in
 whisper_init_with_params_no_state (#3831)

whisper_model_load() can throw instead of returning false: std::runtime_error
from this file (failed ggml context / no compatible buffer type), or
vk::SystemError / vk::OutOfDeviceMemoryError from the ggml-vulkan backend during
device/buffer allocation.

whisper_init_* are extern "C", so a C++ exception unwinding across that boundary
aborts non-C++ callers (Rust via whisper-rs, Go via cgo) -- on Windows
STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN (0xC0000409) -- even though the function already
returns NULL on failure. Wrap whisper_model_load() in try/catch and route any
throw into the existing NULL-return path.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/whisper.cpp | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/whisper.cpp b/src/whisper.cpp
index 0fe29a454..5ffc70af0 100644
--- a/src/whisper.cpp
+++ b/src/whisper.cpp
@@ -3720,7 +3720,21 @@ struct whisper_context * whisper_init_with_params_no_state(struct whisper_model_
     whisper_context * ctx = new whisper_context;
     ctx->params = params;
 
-    if (!whisper_model_load(loader, *ctx)) {
+    // A C++ exception escaping this extern "C" function aborts non-C++ callers
+    // (Rust via whisper-rs, Go via cgo, ...). whisper_model_load can throw
+    // (std::runtime_error here; vk::SystemError from the Vulkan backend during
+    // device/buffer allocation), so funnel any throw into the existing
+    // NULL-return failure path instead of letting it cross the C ABI.
+    bool model_loaded = false;
+    try {
+        model_loaded = whisper_model_load(loader, *ctx);
+    } catch (const std::exception & e) {
+        WHISPER_LOG_ERROR("%s: exception during model load: %s\n", __func__, e.what());
+    } catch (...) {
+        WHISPER_LOG_ERROR("%s: unknown exception during model load\n", __func__);
+    }
+
+    if (!model_loaded) {
         loader->close(loader->context);
         WHISPER_LOG_ERROR("%s: failed to load model\n", __func__);
         delete ctx;