On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:53:49PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think there is no reliable reproduction recipe for this, as we don't > control what garbage is in the tail of malloc'ed memory; valgrind would > have found it, though. > > Let's revert the test part of the patch. IMHO, valgrind finding it is reason enough to keep it. We do run the test suite against valgrind from time to time, and clearly this code path was not being exercised prior to this (or my previous valgrind runs would have caught it). I think Brian's patch is the best thing to do. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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