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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] receive-pack: plug minor memory leak in unpack()
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:53:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141012015321.GA15272@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54390DC0.8060302@web.de>

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 01:00:16PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:

> The argv_array used in unpack() is never freed.  Instead of adding
> explicit calls to argv_array_clear() use the args member of struct
> child_process and let run_command() and friends clean up for us.

Looks good. I notice that the recently added prepare_push_cert_sha1 uses
an argv_array to create the child_process.env, and we leak the result. I
wonder if run-command should provide a managed env array similar to the
"args" array.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-12  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-11 11:00 [PATCH] receive-pack: plug minor memory leak in unpack() René Scharfe
2014-10-12  1:53 ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-10-13 19:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-14  9:16     ` Jeff King
2014-10-19 11:13       ` René Scharfe
2014-10-20  9:19         ` Jeff King
2014-10-19 11:13     ` [PATCH 1/2] run-command: add env_array, an optional argv_array for env René Scharfe
2014-10-19 11:14     ` [PATCH 2/2] use env_array member of struct child_process René Scharfe
2014-10-20  9:19       ` Jeff King
2014-11-09 13:49         ` René Scharfe

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