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[PATCH 04/13] Win32: fix environment memory leaks

From
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Date
Jul 17, 2014, 15:37 UTC
Message-ID
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From: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
All functions that modify the environment have memory leaks.

Disable gitunsetenv in the Makefile and use env_setenv (via mingw_putenv) instead (this frees removed environment entries).

Move xstrdup from env_setenv to make_augmented_environ, so that mingw_putenv no longer copies the environment entries (according to POSIX [1], "the string [...] shall become part of the environment"). This also fixes the memory leak in gitsetenv, which expects a POSIX compliant putenv.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/putenv.html
Note: This patch depends on taking control of char **environ and having
our own mingw_putenv (both introduced in "Win32: Unicode environment
(incoming)").
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
---
 compat/mingw.c   | 10 ++++++----
 compat/mingw.h   |  1 +
 config.mak.uname |  2 --
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index eadba8a..47e866c 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1219,14 +1219,14 @@ static char **env_setenv(char **env, const char *name)
 			for (i = 0; env[i]; i++)
 				;
 			env = xrealloc(env, (i+2)*sizeof(*env));
-			env[i] = xstrdup(name);
+			env[i] = (char*) name;
 			env[i+1] = NULL;
 		}
 	}
 	else {
 		free(env[i]);
 		if (*eq)
-			env[i] = xstrdup(name);
+			env[i] = (char*) name;
 		else
 			for (; env[i]; i++)
 				env[i] = env[i+1];
@@ -1241,8 +1241,10 @@ char **make_augmented_environ(const char *const *vars)
 {
 	char **env = copy_environ();
 
-	while (*vars)
-		env = env_setenv(env, *vars++);
+	while (*vars) {
+		const char *v = *vars++;
+		env = env_setenv(env, strchr(v, '=') ? xstrdup(v) : v);
+	}
 	return env;
 }
 
diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index c3889ca..ef94194 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ char *mingw_getenv(const char *name);
 #define getenv mingw_getenv
 int mingw_putenv(const char *namevalue);
 #define putenv mingw_putenv
+#define unsetenv mingw_putenv
 
 int mingw_gethostname(char *host, int namelen);
 #define gethostname mingw_gethostname
diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index 00cf4c6..15ee15e 100644
--- a/config.mak.uname
+++ b/config.mak.uname
@@ -327,7 +327,6 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
 	NO_IPV6 = YesPlease
 	NO_UNIX_SOCKETS = YesPlease
 	NO_SETENV = YesPlease
-	NO_UNSETENV = YesPlease
 	NO_STRCASESTR = YesPlease
 	NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease
 	NO_MEMMEM = YesPlease
@@ -480,7 +479,6 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
 	NO_SYMLINK_HEAD = YesPlease
 	NO_UNIX_SOCKETS = YesPlease
 	NO_SETENV = YesPlease
-	NO_UNSETENV = YesPlease
 	NO_STRCASESTR = YesPlease
 	NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease
 	NO_MEMMEM = YesPlease
-- 
2.0.0.9635.g0be03cb

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Message 7 of 23 in “mingw unicode environment”
  1. 00/13 mingw unicode environmentStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  2. 01/13 Revert "Windows: teach getenv to do a case-sensitive search"Stepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  3. 02/13 Win32: Unicode environment (outgoing)Stepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  4. fixup! Win32: Unicode environment (outgoing)Karsten Blees, Jul 19, 2014
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2014
  6. 03/13 Win32: Unicode environment (incoming)Stepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  7. 04/13 Win32: fix environment memory leaksStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  8. 05/13 Win32: unify environment case-sensitivityStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  9. 06/13 Win32: unify environment function namesStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  10. 07/13 Win32: factor out environment block creationStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  11. 08/13 Win32: don't copy the environment twice when spawning child processesStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  12. 09/13 Win32: reduce environment array reallocationsStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  13. 10/13 Win32: use low-level memory allocation during initializationStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  14. 11/13 Win32: keep the environment sortedStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  15. 12/13 Win32: patch Windows environment on startupStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  16. 13/13 Enable color output in Windows cmd.exeStepan Kasal, Jul 17, 2014
  17. Junio C HamanoJul 17, 2014
  18. Karsten BleesJul 17, 2014
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 17, 2014
  20. Stepan KasalJul 17, 2014
  21. Junio C HamanoJul 17, 2014
  22. Karsten BleesJul 17, 2014
  23. Stepan KasalJul 18, 2014

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