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[PATCH 1/2] fast-import: plug leak of dirty trees in 'ls' command

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 8, 2012, 20:31 UTC
Message-ID
<20120308203139.GB8992@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<20120308202721.GA8992@burratino>

When the named directory has changed since it was last written to pack, "tree_content_get" makes a deep copy of the list of tree entries which we forgot to free.

This memory leak has been present since the "ls" command was introduced in v1.7.5-rc0~3^2~33 (fast-import: add 'ls' command, 2010-12-02).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
After rediscovering this, I found [1] which mentions the same bug.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/178007/focus=178044
 fast-import.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index c1486cab..1758da94 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -3028,6 +3028,8 @@ static void parse_ls(struct branch *b)
 		store_tree(&leaf);
 
 	print_ls(leaf.versions[1].mode, leaf.versions[1].sha1, p);
+	if (leaf.tree)
+		release_tree_content_recursive(leaf.tree);
 	if (!b || root != &b->branch_tree)
 		release_tree_entry(root);
 }
-- 
1.7.9.2
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Message 17 of 23 in “[BUG] fast-import: ls command on commit root returns missing (was: Bug in svn-fe: copying the root directory acts as if it's an empty directory)”
  1. David BarrMar 8, 2012
  2. fast-import: fix ls command with empty pathDavid Barr, Mar 8, 2012
  3. Jonathan NiederMar 8, 2012
  4. Sverre RabbelierMar 8, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2012
  6. Dmitry IvankovMar 8, 2012
  7. Jonathan NiederMar 8, 2012
  8. Jonathan NiederMar 10, 2012
  9. Jonathan NiederMar 8, 2012
  10. Jonathan NiederMar 10, 2012
  11. fast-import: leakfix for 'ls' of dirty treesJonathan Nieder, Mar 10, 2012
  12. fast-import: don't allow 'ls' of path with empty componentsJonathan Nieder, Mar 10, 2012
  13. [PULL maint] two fast-import "ls" fixesJonathan Nieder, Mar 10, 2012
  14. vcs-svn: avoid 'ls' and filedelete with empty pathJonathan Nieder, Mar 10, 2012
  15. Dave AbrahamsJun 21, 2013
  16. 0/2 Re: fast-import: fix ls command with empty pathJonathan Nieder, Mar 8, 2012
  17. 1/2 fast-import: plug leak of dirty trees in 'ls' commandJonathan Nieder, Mar 8, 2012
  18. 2/2 fast-import: teach ls command to accept empty pathJonathan Nieder, Mar 8, 2012
  19. David BarrMar 9, 2012
  20. Jonathan NiederMar 9, 2012
  21. fast-import: allow 'ls' and filecopy to read the rootJonathan Nieder, Mar 10, 2012
  22. Jonathan NiederMar 10, 2012
  23. 2/1 fixup! fast-import: allow 'ls' and filecopy to read the rootJonathan Nieder, Mar 10, 2012

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