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authorLibravatar Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>2017-05-04 15:59:06 +0200
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-05-08 12:18:20 +0900
commit5308224633cf138f436357b2a8a87a546373af72 (patch)
tree38df10b117d95a5a1f88df10fd8128d8da67450e /builtin
parentremote: plug memory leak in match_explicit() (diff)
downloadtgif-5308224633cf138f436357b2a8a87a546373af72.tar.xz
name-rev: avoid leaking memory in the `deref` case
When the `name_rev()` function is asked to dereference the tip name, it allocates memory. But when it turns out that another tip already described the commit better than the current one, we forgot to release the memory. Pointed out by Coverity. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin')
-rw-r--r--builtin/name-rev.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/name-rev.c b/builtin/name-rev.c
index 92a5d8a5d2..e7a3fe7ee7 100644
--- a/builtin/name-rev.c
+++ b/builtin/name-rev.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ static void name_rev(struct commit *commit,
struct rev_name *name = (struct rev_name *)commit->util;
struct commit_list *parents;
int parent_number = 1;
+ char *to_free = NULL;
parse_commit(commit);
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ static void name_rev(struct commit *commit,
return;
if (deref) {
- tip_name = xstrfmt("%s^0", tip_name);
+ tip_name = to_free = xstrfmt("%s^0", tip_name);
if (generation)
die("generation: %d, but deref?", generation);
@@ -53,8 +54,10 @@ copy_data:
name->taggerdate = taggerdate;
name->generation = generation;
name->distance = distance;
- } else
+ } else {
+ free(to_free);
return;
+ }
for (parents = commit->parents;
parents;