From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:59:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/12] refs: implement logic to migrate between ref storage formats
Message-ID: <xmqq1q5buxzx.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20240605100318.GA3436391@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Coverity complains here of a leak of the xstrdup(). The return from
> mkdtemp() should generally point to the same buffer we passed in, but if
> it sees an error it will return NULL and the new heap buffer will be
> lost.
>
> Probably unlikely, but since you are on a leak-checking kick, I thought
> I'd mention it. ;)
>
> Since you have a writable strbuf already, maybe:
>
>   new_gitdir = mkdtemp(buf.buf);
>   if (!new_gitdir)
> 	...
>   new_gitdir = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL); /* same pointer, but now we own it */
>
> Or since "buf" is not used for anything else, we could just leave it
> attached to the strbuf. And probably give it a better name. Maybe:
> ...

Hmph, I think this is the second one we want to amend on the topic
and it seems that I merged it a bit too prematurely.

I do not mind reverting the topic out of 'next' and actually would
prefer replacing it with a corrected version, which would allow us
to merge the clean copy to the next release.

Thanks.