# [PATCH] git-tar-tree: fix minor memory leak

1 messages from 2006-08-04 to 2006-08-04. Participants: Rene Scharfe.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/5116

## Rene Scharfe, 2006-08-04 08:54

Subject: [PATCH] git-tar-tree: fix minor memory leak
Message-ID: <20060804085408.GA22305@lsrfire.ath.cx>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060804085408.GA22305%40lsrfire.ath.cx

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Free the root tree object buffer when we're done, plugging a minor leak
in generate_tar().  Note: we cannot simply free(tree.buf) because this
pointer is modified by tree_entry() calls in traverse_tree().

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
---

My first Valgrind run. :)


diff --git a/builtin-tar-tree.c b/builtin-tar-tree.c
index 7c48db9..215892b 100644
--- a/builtin-tar-tree.c
+++ b/builtin-tar-tree.c
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ static int generate_tar(int argc, const 
 	struct commit *commit;
 	struct tree_desc tree;
 	struct strbuf current_path;
+	void *buffer;
 
 	current_path.buf = xmalloc(PATH_MAX);
 	current_path.alloc = PATH_MAX;
@@ -341,8 +342,8 @@ static int generate_tar(int argc, const 
 	} else
 		archive_time = time(NULL);
 
-	tree.buf = read_object_with_reference(sha1, tree_type, &tree.size,
-	                                      tree_sha1);
+	tree.buf = buffer = read_object_with_reference(sha1, tree_type,
+	                                               &tree.size, tree_sha1);
 	if (!tree.buf)
 		die("not a reference to a tag, commit or tree object: %s",
 		    sha1_to_hex(sha1));
@@ -351,6 +352,7 @@ static int generate_tar(int argc, const 
 		write_entry(tree_sha1, &current_path, 040777, NULL, 0);
 	traverse_tree(&tree, &current_path);
 	write_trailer();
+	free(buffer);
 	free(current_path.buf);
 	return 0;
 }

```