Re: [PATCH] ref-filter.c: fix a leak in get_head_description

> On Sun, 25 Sept 2022 at 00:53, Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In 2708ce62d2 (branch: sort detached HEAD based on a flag, 2021-01-07) a
>> call to wt_status_state_free_buffers, responsible of freeing the
>> resources that could be allocated in the local struct wt_status_state
>> state, was eliminated.
>>
>> The call to wt_status_state_free_buffers was introduced in 962dd7ebc3
>> (wt-status: introduce wt_status_state_free_buffers(), 2020-09-27).  This
>> commit brings back that call in get_head_description.
>
>> +       wt_status_state_free_buffers(&state);
>> +
>>         return strbuf_detach(&desc, NULL);
>>  }
>
> Good catch, and excellent history digging. From the original submission
> [1] of the patch that dropped this call, I get the feeling that it was
> originally developed some time earlier. I suspect this call was then
> accidentally dropped in a rebase before submission.
>
> FWIW, this patch is
>
> Reviewed-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210106100139.14651-1-avarab@gmail.com/
>
> Martin