On 07/15/2013 04:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The date variable is assigned new memory via xmemdupz and 2 lines later >> it is assigned new memory again via xmalloc, but the first assignment >> is never freed nor used. >> --- >> builtin/commit.c | 1 - >> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c >> index 790e5ab..00da83c 100644 >> --- a/builtin/commit.c >> +++ b/builtin/commit.c >> @@ -534,7 +534,6 @@ static void determine_author_info(struct strbuf *author_ident) >> (lb - strlen(" ") - >> (a + strlen("\nauthor ")))); >> email = xmemdupz(lb + strlen("<"), rb - (lb + strlen("<"))); >> - date = xmemdupz(rb + strlen("> "), eol - (rb + strlen("> "))); >> len = eol - (rb + strlen("> ")); >> date = xmalloc(len + 2); >> *date = '@'; > > Makes sense. I'd assume this is signed-off? > As I realised I did not sign it, I resend it with some other findings a few hours later, so you'll find it there as well. See Message-ID <1373837749-14402-2-git-send-email-stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [PATCH 2/4] commit: Fix a memory leak in determine_author_info -- 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