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[PATCH v2 2/2] merge-ort: fix small memory leak in unique_path()

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Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 20, 2022, 01:29 UTC
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From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>

The struct strmap paths member of merge_options_internal is perhaps the most central data structure to all of merge-ort. Because all the paths involved in the merge need to be kept until the merge is complete, this "paths" data structure traditionally took responsibility for owning all the allocated paths. When the merge is over, those paths were free()d as part of free()ing this strmap.

In commit 6697ee01b5d3 (merge-ort: switch our strmaps over to using memory pools, 2021-07-30), we changed the allocations for pathnames to come from a memory pool. That meant the ownership changed slightly; there were no individual free() calls to make, instead the memory pool owned all those paths and they were free()d all at once.

Unfortunately unique_path() was written presuming the pre-memory-pool model, and allocated a path on the heap and left it in the strmap for later free()ing. Modify it to return a path allocated from the memory pool instead.

Note that there's one instance -- in record_conflicted_index_entries() -- where the returned string from unique_path() was only used very temporarily and thus had been immediately free()'d. This codepath was associated with an ugly skip-worktree workaround that has since been better fixed by the in-flight en/present-despite-skipped topic. This workaround probably makes sense to excise once that topic merges down, but for now, just remove the immediate free() and allow the returned string to be free()d when the memory pool is released.

This fixes the following memory leak as reported by valgrind:

==PID== 65 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 79 of 134 ==PID== at 0xADDRESS: malloc ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: realloc ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: xrealloc (wrapper.c:126) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: strbuf_grow (strbuf.c:98) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: strbuf_vaddf (strbuf.c:394) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: strbuf_addf (strbuf.c:335) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: unique_path (merge-ort.c:733) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: process_entry (merge-ort.c:3678) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: process_entries (merge-ort.c:4037) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: merge_ort_nonrecursive_internal (merge-ort.c:4621) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: merge_ort_internal (merge-ort.c:4709) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: merge_incore_recursive (merge-ort.c:4760) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: merge_ort_recursive (merge-ort-wrappers.c:57) ==PID== by 0xADDRESS: try_merge_strategy (merge.c:753)

Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 merge-ort.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/merge-ort.c b/merge-ort.c
index 3d7f9feb6f7..71134d51502 100644
--- a/merge-ort.c
+++ b/merge-ort.c
@@ -722,13 +722,15 @@ static void add_flattened_path(struct strbuf *out, const char *s)
 			out->buf[i] = '_';
 }
 
-static char *unique_path(struct strmap *existing_paths,
+static char *unique_path(struct merge_options *opt,
 			 const char *path,
 			 const char *branch)
 {
+	char *ret = NULL;
 	struct strbuf newpath = STRBUF_INIT;
 	int suffix = 0;
 	size_t base_len;
+	struct strmap *existing_paths = &opt->priv->paths;
 
 	strbuf_addf(&newpath, "%s~", path);
 	add_flattened_path(&newpath, branch);
@@ -739,7 +741,11 @@ static char *unique_path(struct strmap *existing_paths,
 		strbuf_addf(&newpath, "_%d", suffix++);
 	}
 
-	return strbuf_detach(&newpath, NULL);
+	/* Track the new path in our memory pool */
+	ret = mem_pool_alloc(&opt->priv->pool, newpath.len + 1);
+	memcpy(ret, newpath.buf, newpath.len + 1);
+	strbuf_release(&newpath);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /*** Function Grouping: functions related to collect_merge_info() ***/
@@ -3674,7 +3680,7 @@ static void process_entry(struct merge_options *opt,
 		 */
 		df_file_index = (ci->dirmask & (1 << 1)) ? 2 : 1;
 		branch = (df_file_index == 1) ? opt->branch1 : opt->branch2;
-		path = unique_path(&opt->priv->paths, path, branch);
+		path = unique_path(opt, path, branch);
 		strmap_put(&opt->priv->paths, path, new_ci);
 
 		path_msg(opt, path, 0,
@@ -3799,14 +3805,12 @@ static void process_entry(struct merge_options *opt,
 			/* Insert entries into opt->priv_paths */
 			assert(rename_a || rename_b);
 			if (rename_a) {
-				a_path = unique_path(&opt->priv->paths,
-						     path, opt->branch1);
+				a_path = unique_path(opt, path, opt->branch1);
 				strmap_put(&opt->priv->paths, a_path, ci);
 			}
 
 			if (rename_b)
-				b_path = unique_path(&opt->priv->paths,
-						     path, opt->branch2);
+				b_path = unique_path(opt, path, opt->branch2);
 			else
 				b_path = path;
 			strmap_put(&opt->priv->paths, b_path, new_ci);
@@ -4194,7 +4198,7 @@ static int record_conflicted_index_entries(struct merge_options *opt)
 				struct stat st;
 
 				if (!lstat(path, &st)) {
-					char *new_name = unique_path(&opt->priv->paths,
+					char *new_name = unique_path(opt,
 								     path,
 								     "cruft");
 
@@ -4202,7 +4206,6 @@ static int record_conflicted_index_entries(struct merge_options *opt)
 						 _("Note: %s not up to date and in way of checking out conflicted version; old copy renamed to %s"),
 						 path, new_name);
 					errs |= rename(path, new_name);
-					free(new_name);
 				}
 				errs |= checkout_entry(ce, &state, NULL, NULL);
 			}
-- 
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  1. 0/2 Fix a couple small leaks in merge-ortElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 19, 2022
  2. 1/2 merge-ort: fix small memory leak in detect_and_process_renames()Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 19, 2022
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 19, 2022
  4. Elijah NewrenFeb 20, 2022
  5. 2/2 merge-ort: fix small memory leak in unique_path()Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 19, 2022
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 19, 2022
  7. Elijah NewrenFeb 20, 2022
  8. 0/2 Fix a couple small leaks in merge-ortElijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 20, 2022
  9. 1/2 merge-ort: fix small memory leak in detect_and_process_renames()Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 20, 2022
  10. Taylor BlauFeb 21, 2022
  11. Elijah NewrenFeb 23, 2022
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 1, 2022
  13. Flaky SANITIZE=leak test "regression" in v2.36.0 (was: [PATCH v2 1/2] merge-ort: fix small memory leak in detect_and_process_renames())Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jun 1, 2022
  14. 2/2 merge-ort: fix small memory leak in unique_path()Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget, Feb 20, 2022
  15. Taylor BlauFeb 21, 2022

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