From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:12:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unpack-trees: plug a memory leak
Message-ID: <7va9klwb03.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <520A7AAE.6010309@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
>
> Before overwriting the destination index, first let's discard its
> contents.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Лежанкин Иван <abyss.7@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---
> Felipe sent this patch as part of multiple series in June, but it can
> stand on its own.  This version is trivially rebased against master.
> The leak seems to have been introduced by 34110cd4 (2008-03-06,
> "Make 'unpack_trees()' have a separate source and destination index").

It was lost in the follow-up discussion and I missed it.

I assume that this is signed-off by you as a forwarder?  I'd prefer
to even mark it Reviewed-by: you.

Thanks.

>  unpack-trees.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c
> index bf01717..1a61e6f 100644
> --- a/unpack-trees.c
> +++ b/unpack-trees.c
> @@ -1154,8 +1154,10 @@ int unpack_trees(unsigned len, struct tree_desc *t, struct unpack_trees_options
>  
>  	o->src_index = NULL;
>  	ret = check_updates(o) ? (-2) : 0;
> -	if (o->dst_index)
> +	if (o->dst_index) {
> +		discard_index(o->dst_index);
>  		*o->dst_index = o->result;
> +	}
>  
>  done:
>  	clear_exclude_list(&el);