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[PATCH] builtin-rerere: fix a small leak

From
Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 17, 2008, 07:23 UTC
Message-ID
<7vk5go7cek.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

The data read from MERGE_RR file is kept in path-list by hanging textual 40-byte conflict signature to path of the blob that contains the conflict. The signature is strdup'ed twice, and the second copy is given to the path-list, leaking the first copy.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
---
 * Am I overlooking something obvious, or is this simply a never-reviewed
   buglet that nobody has noticed for a long time?
 builtin-rerere.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-rerere.c b/builtin-rerere.c
index 5c81142..85222d9 100644
--- a/builtin-rerere.c
+++ b/builtin-rerere.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static void read_rr(struct path_list *rr)
 			; /* do nothing */
 		if (i == sizeof(buf))
 			die("filename too long");
-		path_list_insert(buf, rr)->util = xstrdup(name);
+		path_list_insert(buf, rr)->util = name;
 	}
 	fclose(in);
 }
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  1. builtin-rerere: fix a small leakJunio C Hamano, Jun 17, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinJun 17, 2008

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