From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/15] builtin/check-attr: fix a memleak
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:02:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfv8zathi.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426897692-18322-12-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com> (Stefan Beller's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:28:08 -0700")
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
> ---
>
> Notes:
> I do not quite recall a discussion about such fixes
> when I started doing these fixes like 2 years ago.
>
> As this is a main function of a subcommand the freed
> memory is likely to have no impact as the process
> is done soon, so then it gets freed by the OS which
> is likey to be faster as the OS frees the whole pages
> of the process.
You seem to understand it well without "recalling" ;-)
As you said, unless the false hits from valgrind on these overwhelm
the real issues we are looking for, it is usually not worth the
patch churn to fix these. Another valid reason is if we plan to
libify a function that used to be a top-level.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-21 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-21 0:27 [PATCH 00/15] Fixing memory leaks Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 0:27 ` [PATCH 01/15] read-cache: fix memleak Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 3:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-23 16:24 ` Stefan Beller
2015-03-23 17:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Stefan Beller
2015-03-23 17:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] read-cache.c: fix a memleak in add_to_index Stefan Beller
2015-03-23 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-23 18:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] read-cache: fix memleak Junio C Hamano
2015-03-21 0:27 ` [PATCH 02/15] read-cache: Improve readability Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 4:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-21 5:11 ` Stefan Beller
2015-03-22 19:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 03/15] read-cache: free cache entry in add_to_index in case of early return Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 3:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-21 5:10 ` Stefan Beller
2015-03-22 19:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 04/15] update-index: fix a memleak Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 3:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-23 16:53 ` [PATCH] update-index: Don't copy memory around Stefan Beller
2015-03-23 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 05/15] builtin/apply.c: fix a memleak Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 3:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-23 17:13 ` [PATCH] builtin/apply.c: fix a memleak (Fixup, squashable) Stefan Beller
2015-03-23 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 06/15] merge-blobs.c: Fix a memleak Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 07/15] merge-recursive: fix memleaks Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 3:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 08/15] http-push: Remove unneeded cleanup Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 09/15] http: release the memory of a http pack request as well Stefan Beller
2015-03-22 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 16:54 ` Stefan Beller
2015-03-24 17:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 10/15] commit.c: fix a memory leak Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 3:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 13:42 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-03-24 21:17 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 21:20 ` Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 11/15] builtin/check-attr: fix a memleak Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 4:02 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 12/15] builtin/merge-base: fix memleak Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 13/15] builtin/unpack-file: fix a memleak Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 14/15] builtin/cat-file: free memleak Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 0:28 ` [PATCH 15/15] ls-files: fix a memleak Stefan Beller
2015-03-21 3:21 ` [PATCH 00/15] Fixing memory leaks Junio C Hamano
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