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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 01/11] Fix memory leak in traverse_commit_list
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 06:06:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071109110610.GA19368@spearce.org> (raw)

If we were listing objects too then the objects were buffered in an
array only reachable from a stack allocated structure.  When this
function returns that array would be leaked as nobody would have
a reference to it anymore.

Historically this hasn't been a problem as the primary user of
traverse_commit_list() (the noble git-rev-list) would terminate
as soon as the function was finished, thus allowing the operating
system to cleanup memory.  However we have been leaking this data
in git-pack-objects ever since that program learned how to run the
revision listing internally, rather than relying on reading object
names from git-rev-list.

To better facilitate reuse of traverse_commit_list during other
builtin tools (such as git-fetch) we shouldn't leak temporary memory
like this and instead we need to clean up properly after ourselves.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 list-objects.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/list-objects.c b/list-objects.c
index e5c88c2..713bef9 100644
--- a/list-objects.c
+++ b/list-objects.c
@@ -170,4 +170,11 @@ void traverse_commit_list(struct rev_info *revs,
 	}
 	for (i = 0; i < objects.nr; i++)
 		show_object(&objects.objects[i]);
+	free(objects.objects);
+	if (revs->pending.nr) {
+		revs->pending.nr = 0;
+		revs->pending.alloc = 0;
+		revs->pending.objects = NULL;
+		free(revs->pending.objects);
+	}
 }
-- 
1.5.3.5.1622.g41d10

             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-09 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-09 11:06 Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-11-09 22:43 ` [PATCH 01/11] Fix memory leak in traverse_commit_list Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 23:51   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-11  5:17   ` Shawn O. Pearce

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