Re: [PATCH] builtin/gc: fix crash when running `git maintenance start`

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 10/8/24 8:15 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> It was reported on the mailing list that running `git maintenance start`
> immediately segfaults starting with b6c3f8e12c (builtin/maintenance: fix
> leak in `get_schedule_cmd()`, 2024-09-26). And indeed, this segfault is
> trivial to reproduce up to a point where one is scratching their head
> why we didn't catch this regression in our test suite.

> +test_expect_success 'start without GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER' '
> +	test_when_finished "rm -rf crontab.log script repo" &&
> +	mkdir script &&
> +	write_script script/crontab <<-EOF &&
> +	echo "\$*" >>"$(pwd)"/crontab.log
> +	EOF
> +	git init repo &&
> +	(
> +		cd repo &&
> +		sane_unset GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER &&
> +		PATH="$(pwd)/../script:$PATH" git maintenance start --scheduler=crontab
> +	) &&
> +	test_grep -- -l crontab.log &&
> +	test_grep -- git_cron_edit_tmp crontab.log
> +'
> +
I see why we didn't catch this immediately. This is a good way to work
around this issue of "mocking" the scheduler.

Thanks for the fast response.
-Stolee