[PATCH 08/11] read_index_from(): avoid memory leak

From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2022, 23:35 UTC
Message-ID: <a3f79b3e034a3a982b3be7835062493bfdf29ee5.1655336146.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1264.git.1655336146.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

In 998330ac2e7c (read-cache: look for shared index files next to the index, too, 2021-08-26), we added code that allocates memory to store the base path of a shared index, but we never released that memory.

Reported by Coverity.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 read-cache.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index e61af3a3d4d..76f372ff917 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -2473,15 +2473,15 @@ int read_index_from(struct index_state *istate, const char *path,
 				   the_repository, "%s", base_path);
 	if (!ret) {
 		char *path_copy = xstrdup(path);
-		const char *base_path2 = xstrfmt("%s/sharedindex.%s",
-						 dirname(path_copy),
-						 base_oid_hex);
+		char *base_path2 = xstrfmt("%s/sharedindex.%s",
+					   dirname(path_copy), base_oid_hex);
 		free(path_copy);
 		trace2_region_enter_printf("index", "shared/do_read_index",
 					   the_repository, "%s", base_path2);
 		ret = do_read_index(split_index->base, base_path2, 1);
 		trace2_region_leave_printf("index", "shared/do_read_index",
 					   the_repository, "%s", base_path2);
+		free(base_path2);
 	}
 	if (!oideq(&split_index->base_oid, &split_index->base->oid))
 		die(_("broken index, expect %s in %s, got %s"),

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