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Re: Plug memory leak in update-cache.c

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Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
Apr 15, 2005, 23:48 UTC
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<20050415234807.GS7417@pasky.ji.cz>
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Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:53:50AM CEST, I got a letter where Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> told me that...

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> Hi,
> 
> Might not be that an big an issue as it should be freed on exit, but
> might cause problems with big trees.
> 
> ----
> 
> Plug memory leak in update-cache.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
> 
> update-cache.c:  22f3ccd47db4f0888901109a8cbf883d272d1cba
> --- 22f3ccd47db4f0888901109a8cbf883d272d1cba/update-cache.c
> +++ uncommitted/update-cache.c
> @@ -202,6 +202,7 @@
>                         printf("%s: needs update\n", ce->name);
>                         continue;
>                 }
> +               free(active_cache[i]);
>                 active_cache[i] = new;
>         }
>  }

FYI, new could've contained active_cache[i] at that time, so you needed to check for that. Fixed though, thanks for pointing it out.

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  1. Martin SchlemmerApr 14, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisApr 15, 2005
  3. Martin SchlemmerApr 16, 2005
  4. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005

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