# [PATCH] apply: don't leak fd on fdopen() error

2 messages from 2024-04-05 to 2024-04-05. Participants: René Scharfe, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/61272

## René Scharfe, 2024-04-05 10:58

Subject: [PATCH] apply: don't leak fd on fdopen() error
Message-ID: <5ba55ee4-94c7-4094-a744-584fc623b391@web.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/5ba55ee4-94c7-4094-a744-584fc623b391%40web.de

```
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
---
 apply.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apply.c b/apply.c
index 432837a674..1cfbc2f074 100644
--- a/apply.c
+++ b/apply.c
@@ -4655,8 +4655,11 @@ static int write_out_one_reject(struct apply_state *state, struct patch *patch)
 			return error_errno(_("cannot open %s"), namebuf);
 	}
 	rej = fdopen(fd, "w");
-	if (!rej)
-		return error_errno(_("cannot open %s"), namebuf);
+	if (!rej) {
+		error_errno(_("cannot open %s"), namebuf);
+		close(fd);
+		return -1;
+	}

 	/* Normal git tools never deal with .rej, so do not pretend
 	 * this is a git patch by saying --git or giving extended
--
2.44.0

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2024-04-05 17:09

Subject: Re: [PATCH] apply: don't leak fd on fdopen() error
Message-ID: <xmqqv84vvirr.fsf@gitster.g>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqv84vvirr.fsf%40gitster.g
In-Reply-To: <5ba55ee4-94c7-4094-a744-584fc623b391@web.de>

```
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
> ---
>  apply.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/apply.c b/apply.c
> index 432837a674..1cfbc2f074 100644
> --- a/apply.c
> +++ b/apply.c
> @@ -4655,8 +4655,11 @@ static int write_out_one_reject(struct apply_state *state, struct patch *patch)
>  			return error_errno(_("cannot open %s"), namebuf);
>  	}
>  	rej = fdopen(fd, "w");
> -	if (!rej)
> -		return error_errno(_("cannot open %s"), namebuf);
> +	if (!rej) {
> +		error_errno(_("cannot open %s"), namebuf);
> +		close(fd);
> +		return -1;
> +	}

Ah, true, this fd is what we created in this function, and we should
close it.  Well spotted.

Will queue.

>
>  	/* Normal git tools never deal with .rej, so do not pretend
>  	 * this is a git patch by saying --git or giving extended
> --
> 2.44.0

```
