[PATCH 04/11] get_oid_with_context_1(): avoid use-after-free

From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2022, 23:35 UTC
Message-ID: <cf6bcdb43e5b4abab464c30a914d64dc8e7a9925.1655336146.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1264.git.1655336146.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

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

In 561287d342cc (object-name: reject trees found in the index, 2022-04-26), we changed the code to release the memory stored under the `new_path` variable a bit earlier.

However, at that point the variable `cp` still points to `new_path` (if non-`NULL`), and we _then_ pass that pointer to `reject_tree_in_index()`.

Let's make sure that the pointer still points to allocated memory by moving the original `free()` call back where it was, and adding another one in the early return code path.

Reported by Coverity.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 object-name.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/object-name.c b/object-name.c
index 4d2746574cd..228c12a554c 100644
--- a/object-name.c
+++ b/object-name.c
@@ -1971,12 +1971,14 @@ static enum get_oid_result get_oid_with_context_1(struct repository *repo,
 			    memcmp(ce->name, cp, namelen))
 				break;
 			if (ce_stage(ce) == stage) {
-				free(new_path);
 				if (reject_tree_in_index(repo, only_to_die, ce,
-							 stage, prefix, cp))
+							 stage, prefix, cp)) {
+					free(new_path);
 					return -1;
+				}
 				oidcpy(oid, &ce->oid);
 				oc->mode = ce->ce_mode;
+				free(new_path);
 				return 0;
 			}
 			pos++;

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