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[PATCH 0/4] plugging some mmap() leaks

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 5, 2026, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID
<20260305230315.GA2354983@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<20260305220214.GB736322@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 05:02:14PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> Anyway, I think the solution is probably something like the patch above,
> though probably it needs to cover the case where new_pack is NULL.

So here is a more polished version. I decided to try running the whole test suite with leak-checking and NO_MMAP, and it turned up one other case. This series fixes that, too, and then turns on the flag for all leak-checking builds.

  [1/4]: check_connected(): delay opening new_pack
  [2/4]: check_connected(): fix leak of pack-index mmap
  [3/4]: pack-revindex: avoid double-loading .rev files
  [4/4]: Makefile: turn on NO_MMAP when building with LSan
 Makefile        |  1 +
 connected.c     | 38 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 pack-revindex.c |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
-Peff
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Message 3 of 25 in “memory leak when cloning a repository”
  1. Jacob KellerMar 5, 2026
  2. Jeff KingMar 5, 2026
  3. 0/4 plugging some mmap() leaksJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  4. 1/4 check_connected(): delay opening new_packJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  5. Jacob KellerMar 5, 2026
  6. 2/4 check_connected(): fix leak of pack-index mmapJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  7. Jacob KellerMar 5, 2026
  8. 3/4 pack-revindex: avoid double-loading .rev filesJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  9. 4/4 Makefile: turn on NO_MMAP when building with LSanJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  10. Jacob KellerMar 6, 2026
  11. 5/4 meson: turn on NO_MMAP when building with LSanJeff King, Mar 6, 2026
  12. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2026
  14. 5/4 object-file: fix mmap() leak in odb_source_loose_read_object_stream()Jeff King, Mar 7, 2026
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2026
  16. Patrick SteinhardtMar 10, 2026
  17. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  18. Jeff KingMar 6, 2026
  19. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2026
  21. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  22. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2026
  23. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2026
  25. Jacob KellerMar 5, 2026

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