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From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit-graph: avoid memory leaks
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 16:20:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16be6de4-3453-2fc2-2881-7068bf674517@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200504191324.201663-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

On 5/4/2020 3:13 PM, Jonathan Tan wrote:
> A fuzzer running on the entry point provided by fuzz-commit-graph.c
> revealed a memory leak when parse_commit_graph() creates a struct
> bloom_filter_settings and then returns early due to error. Fix that
> error by always freeing that struct first (if it exists) before
> returning early due to error.

This fuzzer is an excellent tool that I hope can continue to be
extended to other features. Here is a case where it found an error in
a feature long after the integration was introduced.

> While making that change, I also noticed another possible memory leak -
> when the BLOOMDATA chunk is provided but not BLOOMINDEXES. Also fix that
> error.

Thanks for discovering these issues, and for fixing them!

Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>

Thanks,
-Stolee

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-04 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-04 19:13 [PATCH] commit-graph: avoid memory leaks Jonathan Tan
2020-05-04 20:20 ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2020-05-04 22:15   ` Taylor Blau
2020-05-04 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano

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