Among the three similar-looking loops that walk singly linked commit_list, the first one is only peeking and the same list is later used for real work. Leave a comment not to mistakenly free its elements there. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- revision.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c index 00aaefe..814b96f 100644 --- a/revision.c +++ b/revision.c @@ -2015,23 +2015,31 @@ static struct commit_list **simplify_one(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *c static void simplify_merges(struct rev_info *revs) { - struct commit_list *list; + struct commit_list *list, *next; struct commit_list *yet_to_do, **tail; + struct commit *commit; if (!revs->prune) return; /* feed the list reversed */ yet_to_do = NULL; - for (list = revs->commits; list; list = list->next) - commit_list_insert(list->item, &yet_to_do); + for (list = revs->commits; list; list = next) { + commit = list->item; + next = list->next; + /* + * Do not free(list) here yet; the original list + * is used later in this function. + */ + commit_list_insert(commit, &yet_to_do); + } while (yet_to_do) { list = yet_to_do; yet_to_do = NULL; tail = &yet_to_do; while (list) { - struct commit *commit = list->item; - struct commit_list *next = list->next; + commit = list->item; + next = list->next; free(list); list = next; tail = simplify_one(revs, commit, tail); @@ -2043,9 +2051,10 @@ static void simplify_merges(struct rev_info *revs) revs->commits = NULL; tail = &revs->commits; while (list) { - struct commit *commit = list->item; - struct commit_list *next = list->next; struct merge_simplify_state *st; + + commit = list->item; + next = list->next; free(list); list = next; st = locate_simplify_state(revs, commit); -- 1.7.11.rc2.29.g85b30f3 -- 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