[PATCH 03/15] do not create "struct commit" with xcalloc

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

In both blame and merge-recursive, we sometimes create a
"fake" commit struct for convenience (e.g., to represent the
HEAD state as if we would commit it). By allocating
ourselves rather than using alloc_commit_node, we do not
properly set the "index" field of the commit. This can
produce subtle bugs if we then use commit-slab on the
resulting commit, as we will share the "0" index with
another commit.

We can fix this by using alloc_commit_node() to allocate.
Note that we cannot free the result, as it is part of our
commit allocator. However, both cases were already leaking
the allocated commit anyway, so there's nothing to fix up.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 builtin/blame.c   | 2 +-
 merge-recursive.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index a52a279..d6056a5 100644
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -2286,7 +2286,7 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(struct diff_options *opt,
 	struct strbuf msg = STRBUF_INIT;
 
 	time(&now);
-	commit = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*commit));
+	commit = alloc_commit_node();
 	commit->object.parsed = 1;
 	commit->date = now;
 	commit->object.type = OBJ_COMMIT;
diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index cab16fa..2b37d42 100644
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static struct tree *shift_tree_object(struct tree *one, struct tree *two,
 
 static struct commit *make_virtual_commit(struct tree *tree, const char *comment)
 {
-	struct commit *commit = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct commit));
+	struct commit *commit = alloc_commit_node();
 	struct merge_remote_desc *desc = xmalloc(sizeof(*desc));
 
 	desc->name = comment;
-- 
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