Re: [PATCH 00/10] sequencer API & users: fix widespread leaks

> This series fixes various widespread leaks in the sequencer and its
> users (rebase, revert, cherry-pick). As a result 18 tests become
> leak-free in their entirety.
> 
> The main change is the 3/10 here, where we introduce a
> replay_opts_release() to free the "struct replay_opts". The rest is
> then either refactorings to be able to call that destructor
> (e.g. "return" to "goto cleanup"), or other miscellanious adjacent
> leaks.
> 
> This is a follow-up to the discussion ending at [1], as noted there
> the recent ff84d031a9d (Merge branch 'pw/rebase-no-reflog-action',
> 2022-11-23) ended up introducing a leak because of the disfunctional
> lack of a destructor (or rather, the current logic being tied up in
> sequencer_remove_state().

> This can be queued and graduated independently of the other concurrent
> leak series I've submitted[2]. When the two are combined we'll end up
> passing more tests, i.e. both topics combined get us over the finish
> line for some of them, but neither one is enough in isolation.
> 
> But that's OK, we just won't opt them into the "linux-leaks"
> testing. I'll submit a follow-up similar to [3] at some later date to
> mark them as passing. I think that's a better trade-off than making
> these two depend on one another.
> 
> 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/221108.864jv9sc9r.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
> 2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-v2-00.20-00000000000-20221230T020341Z-avarab@gmail.com/
> 3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/patch-v2-01.20-3de29c6d75f-20221230T020341Z-avarab@gmail.com/
> 
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (10):
>    rebase: use "cleanup" pattern in do_interactive_rebase()
>    sequencer.c: split up sequencer_remove_state()
>    rebase & sequencer API: fix get_replay_opts() leak in "rebase"
>    builtin/revert.c: refactor run_sequencer() return pattern
>    builtin/revert.c: fix common leak by using replay_opts_release()
>    builtin/revert.c: move free-ing of "revs" to replay_opts_release()
>    builtin/rebase.c: fix "options.onto_name" leak
>    sequencer.c: always free() the "msgbuf" in do_pick_commit()
>    builtin/rebase.c: free() "options.strategy_opts"
>    commit.c: free() revs.commit in get_fork_point()
> 
>   builtin/rebase.c                       | 19 +++++-----
>   builtin/revert.c                       | 40 +++++++++++----------
>   commit.c                               |  1 +
>   sequencer.c                            | 48 +++++++++++++++++---------
>   sequencer.h                            |  1 +
>   t/t3405-rebase-malformed.sh            |  1 +
>   t/t3412-rebase-root.sh                 |  1 +
>   t/t3416-rebase-onto-threedots.sh       |  1 +
>   t/t3419-rebase-patch-id.sh             |  1 +
>   t/t3423-rebase-reword.sh               |  1 +
>   t/t3425-rebase-topology-merges.sh      |  2 ++
>   t/t3431-rebase-fork-point.sh           |  1 +
>   t/t3432-rebase-fast-forward.sh         |  1 +
>   t/t3437-rebase-fixup-options.sh        |  1 +
>   t/t3438-rebase-broken-files.sh         |  2 ++
>   t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh          |  1 +
>   t/t3502-cherry-pick-merge.sh           |  1 +
>   t/t3503-cherry-pick-root.sh            |  1 +
>   t/t3506-cherry-pick-ff.sh              |  1 +
>   t/t3511-cherry-pick-x.sh               |  1 +
>   t/t7402-submodule-rebase.sh            |  1 +
>   t/t9106-git-svn-commit-diff-clobber.sh |  1 -
>   t/t9164-git-svn-dcommit-concurrent.sh  |  1 -
>   23 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>