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* [PATCH] commit: Fix a memory leak in determine_author_info
@ 2013-07-14 14:01 Stefan Beller
  2013-07-15 14:42 ` Junio C Hamano
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Beller @ 2013-07-14 14:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git; +Cc: Stefan Beller

The date variable is assigned new memory via xmemdupz and 2 lines later
it is assigned new memory again via xmalloc, but the first assignment
is never freed nor used.
---
 builtin/commit.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 790e5ab..00da83c 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -534,7 +534,6 @@ static void determine_author_info(struct strbuf *author_ident)
 					(lb - strlen(" ") -
 					 (a + strlen("\nauthor "))));
 		email = xmemdupz(lb + strlen("<"), rb - (lb + strlen("<")));
-		date = xmemdupz(rb + strlen("> "), eol - (rb + strlen("> ")));
 		len = eol - (rb + strlen("> "));
 		date = xmalloc(len + 2);
 		*date = '@';
-- 
1.8.3.2.806.gdee5b9b

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