Re: [PATCH V2 6/6] WIP/RFC/entry.c: fix a memleak

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On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I  observe that filter is going out of scope, but the
> implementation proposed in this patch produces just a
> crash instead of any helpful fix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/entry.c b/entry.c
> index 1eda8e9..5383001 100644
> --- a/entry.c
> +++ b/entry.c
> @@ -152,8 +152,10 @@ static int write_entry(struct cache_entry *ce,
>                 if (filter &&
>                     !streaming_write_entry(ce, path, filter,
>                                            state, to_tempfile,
> -                                          &fstat_done, &st))
> +                                          &fstat_done, &st)) {
> +                       free_stream_filter(filter);

Aside from the crash you are seeing, this is a bogus fix anyway.
You're only freeing 'filter' if it was allocated _and_ if
streaming_write_entry() returned 0. I would guess your intention was
to free 'filter' regardless of the result of streaming_write_entry().

>                         goto finish;
> +               }
>         }
>
>         switch (ce_mode_s_ifmt) {
> --
> 2.3.0.81.gc37f363
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