From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] object-file: fix leak on conversion failure
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 12:34:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f536f91-1dce-4156-98f2-4059cd5235ff@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240622043648.M78681@dcvr>
On 6/22/24 12:36 AM, Eric Wong wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly how to trigger the leak, but it seems fairly
> obvious that the `content' buffer should be freed even if
> convert_object_file() fails. Noticed while working in this area
> on unrelated things.
Definitely a good thing to include, even if it is unlikely to
be hit frequently in common scenarios.
> ret = convert_object_file(&outbuf,
> the_hash_algo, input_algo,
> content, size, type, !do_die);
> + free(content);
> if (ret == -1)
> return -1;
> - free(content);
I looked at the context of this function to see that 'content'
was local to the method, so was not "owned" by something outside
of the method that might expect to reuse the buffer on failure.
Thanks,
-Stolee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-23 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-22 4:36 [PATCH] object-file: fix leak on conversion failure Eric Wong
2024-06-23 16:34 ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2024-06-24 16:08 ` Junio C Hamano
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