# [PATCH] Fix memory leak in prepend_to_path (git.c).

1 messages from 2006-09-05 to 2006-09-05. Participants: Christian Couder.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/5479

## Christian Couder, 2006-09-05 06:22

Subject: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in prepend_to_path (git.c).
Message-ID: <20060905082216.c9b11769.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060905082216.c9b11769.chriscool%40tuxfamily.org

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Some memory was allocated for a new path but not freed
after the path was used.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 git.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 1d00111..335f405 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ static void prepend_to_path(const char *
 	memcpy(path + len + 1, old_path, path_len - len);
 
 	setenv("PATH", path, 1);
+
+	free(path);
 }
 
 static int handle_options(const char*** argv, int* argc)
-- 
1.4.2.g269a-dirty

```