Re: [PATCH 09/11] branch: fix a leak in setup_tracking

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 12, 2023, 03:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20230612035948.GI306352@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <471dcc04-d60c-b745-15f0-05fe4e93ff11@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 08:50:36PM +0200, Rubén Justo wrote:

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> The commit d3115660b4 (branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking,
> 2021-12-20) replaced in "struct tracking", the member "char *src" by a
> new "struct string_list *srcs".
> 
> This caused a modification in find_tracked_branch().  The string
> returned by remote_find_tracking(), previously assigned to "src", is now
> added to the string_list "srcs".
> 
> That string_list is initialized with STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, which means
> that what is added is not the given string, but a duplicate.  Therefore,
> the string returned by remote_find_tracking() is leaked.

Your fix makes sense. I had to stare at the existing code for a long time to make sure the _other_ side of the switch wasn't leaking, but it works by falling through "case 2" into "default", which frees tracking->spec.src. So this should plug the leak completely.

-Peff