From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:30:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix use after free() in builtin-fetch
Message-ID: <7vtzhl6rtp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080428202335.GA10600@steel.home>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> As reported by Dave Jones:
> ...
> export MALLOC_PERTURB_=$(($RANDOM % 255 + 1))
>
> which is handy for showing up such bugs.
>
> More info on this glibc feature is at http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11429.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>

Thanks.  I can reproduce the issue and the fix (and can even bisect this
down to ba22785 (Reduce the number of connects when fetching, 2008-02-04),
which makes perfect sense).

Will apply to 'maint' and merge up.