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[PATCH] repository: prevent memory leak when releasing ref stores

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SGSven Strickroth via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 5, 2024, 10:56 UTC
Message-ID
<pull.1758.git.git.1722855364436.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>

`ref_store_release` does not free the ref_store allocated in `ref_store_init`.

Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
---
    repository: prevent memory leak when releasing ref stores
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1758%2Fcsware%2Frepository-memory-leak-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1758/csware/repository-memory-leak-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1758
 repository.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/repository.c b/repository.c
index 9825a308993..46f1eadfe95 100644
--- a/repository.c
+++ b/repository.c
@@ -366,12 +366,16 @@ void repo_clear(struct repository *repo)
 		FREE_AND_NULL(repo->remote_state);
 	}
 
-	strmap_for_each_entry(&repo->submodule_ref_stores, &iter, e)
+	strmap_for_each_entry(&repo->submodule_ref_stores, &iter, e) {
 		ref_store_release(e->value);
+		free(e->value);
+	}
 	strmap_clear(&repo->submodule_ref_stores, 1);
 
-	strmap_for_each_entry(&repo->worktree_ref_stores, &iter, e)
+	strmap_for_each_entry(&repo->worktree_ref_stores, &iter, e) {
 		ref_store_release(e->value);
+		free(e->value);
+	}
 	strmap_clear(&repo->worktree_ref_stores, 1);
 
 	repo_clear_path_cache(&repo->cached_paths);

base-commit: e559c4bf1a306cf5814418d318cc0fea070da3c7
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