From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit-graph: fix memory leak when not writing graph
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 14:11:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZZhUWu5pgBEYK409@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0feab5e7d5bc6275e2c7671cd8f6786ea86fd610.1702891190.git.ps@pks.im>
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 11:02:28AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> When `write_commit_graph()` bails out writing a split commit-graph early
> then it may happen that we have already gathered the set of existing
> commit-graph file names without yet determining the new merged set of
> files. This can result in a memory leak though because we only clear the
> preimage of files when we have collected the postimage.
>
> Fix this issue by dropping the condition altogether so that we always
> try to free both preimage and postimage filenames. As the context
> structure is zero-initialized this simplification is safe to do.
Looks obviously good to me, thanks for finding and fixing.
Thanks,
Taylor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-05 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-18 10:02 [PATCH] commit-graph: fix memory leak when not writing graph Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-05 19:11 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2024-01-15 7:08 ` Patrick Steinhardt
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