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[PATCH] REFTABLE_REALLOC_ARRAY: fix potential memory leak if realloc failed

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Lidong Yan via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
May 8, 2025, 13:39 UTC
Message-ID
<pull.1955.git.git.1746711583166.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: Lidong Yan <502024330056@smail.nju.edu.cn>

REFTABLE_REALLOC_ARRAY doesn't free origin pointer when reftable_realloc failed. This leak can be fixed by add a free(x) before set x to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <502024330056@smail.nju.edu.cn>
---
    REFTABLE_REALLOC_ARRAY: fix potential memory leak if realloc failed
    
    REFTABLE_REALLOC_ARRAY doesn't free origin pointer when reftable_realloc
    failed. This leak can be fixed by add a free(x) before set x to NULL.
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1955%2Fbrandb97%2Ffix-REFTABLE-REALLOC-leak-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1955/brandb97/fix-REFTABLE-REALLOC-leak-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1955
 reftable/basics.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/reftable/basics.h b/reftable/basics.h
index d8888c12629..c7651f0cda8 100644
--- a/reftable/basics.h
+++ b/reftable/basics.h
@@ -200,14 +200,26 @@ static inline int reftable_alloc_size(size_t nelem, size_t elsize, size_t *out)
 		} \
 	} while (0)
 #define REFTABLE_CALLOC_ARRAY(x, alloc) (x) = reftable_calloc((alloc), sizeof(*(x)))
-#define REFTABLE_REALLOC_ARRAY(x, alloc) do { \
-		size_t alloc_size; \
-		if (reftable_alloc_size(sizeof(*(x)), (alloc), &alloc_size) < 0) { \
-			errno = ENOMEM; \
-			(x) = NULL; \
-		} else { \
-			(x) = reftable_realloc((x), alloc_size); \
-		} \
+#define REFTABLE_REALLOC_ARRAY(x, alloc)                                      \
+	do {                                                                  \
+		size_t alloc_size;                                            \
+		void *new_p;                                                  \
+		if (reftable_alloc_size(sizeof(*(x)), (alloc), &alloc_size) < \
+		    0) {                                                      \
+			goto cleanup;                                         \
+		} else {                                                      \
+			new_p = reftable_realloc((x), alloc_size);            \
+			if (!new_p) {                                         \
+				goto cleanup;                                 \
+			}                                                     \
+			(x) = new_p;                                          \
+		}                                                             \
+		break;                                                        \
+	cleanup:                                                              \
+		if (x)                                                        \
+			free(x);                                              \
+		errno = ENOMEM;                                               \
+		(x) = NULL;                                                   \
 	} while (0)
 
 static inline void *reftable_alloc_grow(void *p, size_t nelem, size_t elsize,

base-commit: 6f84262c44a89851c3ae5a6e4c1a9d06b2068d75
-- 
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  1. REFTABLE_REALLOC_ARRAY: fix potential memory leak if realloc failedLidong Yan via GitGitGadget, May 8, 2025
  2. René ScharfeMay 8, 2025
  3. lidongyanMay 9, 2025
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  6. Patrick SteinhardtMay 9, 2025
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  8. REFTABLE_REALLOC_ARRAY: remove this unsafe yet unused macroLidong Yan via GitGitGadget, May 9, 2025
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