Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > This is not enough. There are quite a few exit paths. Notice the "goto > out_free"? That is where this must go. > > This patch is totally untested but obviously correct: except that many places you already close(fd) and unlink(lock_file). Somehow it vaguely reminds me of recent "kernel in C++" thread in the other mailing list, which I do not want people to start talking about here, but moving all the clean-up code to exit path indeed makes things simpler to read. How about doing something like this? -- >8 -- diff --git a/config.c b/config.c index 11d65f8..adb5ce4 100644 --- a/config.c +++ b/config.c @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ int git_config_set_multivar(const char* const char* value_regex, int multi_replace) { int i; - int fd, in_fd; + int fd = -1, in_fd; int ret; char* config_filename = strdup(git_path("config")); char* lock_file = strdup(git_path("config.lock")); @@ -478,15 +478,11 @@ int git_config_set_multivar(const char* if ( ENOENT != errno ) { error("opening %s: %s", config_filename, strerror(errno)); - close(fd); - unlink(lock_file); ret = 3; /* same as "invalid config file" */ goto out_free; } /* if nothing to unset, error out */ if (value == NULL) { - close(fd); - unlink(lock_file); ret = 5; goto out_free; } @@ -514,8 +510,6 @@ int git_config_set_multivar(const char* fprintf(stderr, "Invalid pattern: %s\n", value_regex); free(store.value_regex); - close(fd); - unlink(lock_file); ret = 6; goto out_free; } @@ -551,8 +545,6 @@ int git_config_set_multivar(const char* /* if nothing to unset, or too many matches, error out */ if ((store.seen == 0 && value == NULL) || (store.seen > 1 && multi_replace == 0)) { - close(fd); - unlink(lock_file); ret = 5; goto out_free; } @@ -601,8 +593,6 @@ int git_config_set_multivar(const char* unlink(config_filename); } - close(fd); - if (rename(lock_file, config_filename) < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Could not rename the lock file?\n"); ret = 4; @@ -612,10 +602,14 @@ int git_config_set_multivar(const char* ret = 0; out_free: + if (0 <= fd) + close(fd); if (config_filename) free(config_filename); - if (lock_file) + if (lock_file) { + unlink(lock_file); free(lock_file); + } return ret; } - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html