From: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:31:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/22] trailer: fix leaking strbufs when formatting trailers
Message-ID: <ye7hagpn5xmtlndgk5usx7i4xrg2s32eyukcy6fapxitye24ws@ddrg5zrnxkn3>
In-Reply-To: <5b851453bcea945f95c3f29138e510d8448e96e6.1729502824.git.ps@pks.im>

On 24/10/21 11:28AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> We are populating, but never releasing two string buffers in
> `format_trailers()`, causing a memory leak. Plug this leak by lifting
> those buffers outside of the loop and releasing them on function return.
> This fixes the memory leaks, but also optimizes the loop as we don't
> have to reallocate the buffers on every single iteration.

I see that we were previously calling `strbuf_release()` inside of the
loop. In practice were these never hit? Or just sometimes skipped my the
"continue" in the loop? The commit message makes it sound like the
former.