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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] grep: plug a trivial memory leak
Date: Sun,  9 Apr 2017 19:59:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170409195900.32701-1-avarab@gmail.com> (raw)

Change the cleanup phase for the grep command to free the pathspec
struct that's allocated earlier in the same block, and used just a few
lines earlier.

With "grep hi README.md" valgrind reports a loss of 239 bytes now,
down from 351.

The relevant --num-callers=40 --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all
backtrace is:

    [...] 187 (112 direct, 75 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 70 of 110
    [...]    at 0x4C2BBAF: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
    [...]    by 0x60B339: do_xmalloc (wrapper.c:59)
    [...]    by 0x60B2F6: xmalloc (wrapper.c:86)
    [...]    by 0x576B37: parse_pathspec (pathspec.c:652)
    [...]    by 0x4519F0: cmd_grep (grep.c:1215)
    [...]    by 0x4062EF: run_builtin (git.c:371)
    [...]    by 0x40544D: handle_builtin (git.c:572)
    [...]    by 0x4060A2: run_argv (git.c:624)
    [...]    by 0x4051C6: cmd_main (git.c:701)
    [...]    by 0x4C5901: main (common-main.c:43)

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---

Since pretty much any non-trivial git command leaks because it skips
cleanup are patches in this category even accepted? Worth a try...

 builtin/grep.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 65070c52fc..3ffb5b4e81 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -1299,6 +1299,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		hit |= wait_all();
 	if (hit && show_in_pager)
 		run_pager(&opt, prefix);
+	clear_pathspec(&pathspec);
 	free_grep_patterns(&opt);
 	return !hit;
 }
-- 
2.11.0


             reply	other threads:[~2017-04-09 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-09 19:59 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2017-04-10 17:17 ` [PATCH] grep: plug a trivial memory leak Brandon Williams

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