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[PATCH] builtin/notes: remove unnecessary free

From
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2018, 09:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20181111094933.27325-1-carenas@gmail.com>

511726e4b1 ("builtin/notes: fix premature failure when trying to add the empty blob", 2014-11-09) removed the check for !len but left a call to free the buffer that will be otherwise NULL

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/notes.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/notes.c b/builtin/notes.c
index c05cd004ab..68062f7475 100644
--- a/builtin/notes.c
+++ b/builtin/notes.c
@@ -255,10 +255,8 @@ static int parse_reuse_arg(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
 
 	if (get_oid(arg, &object))
 		die(_("failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), arg);
-	if (!(buf = read_object_file(&object, &type, &len))) {
-		free(buf);
+	if (!(buf = read_object_file(&object, &type, &len)))
 		die(_("failed to read object '%s'."), arg);
-	}
 	if (type != OBJ_BLOB) {
 		free(buf);
 		die(_("cannot read note data from non-blob object '%s'."), arg);
-- 
2.19.1.856.g8858448bb
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