Re: [PATCH] update-index: fix xgetcwd() related memory leak

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 08:22:08AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

> As xgetcwd() returns an allocated buffer, we should free this
> buffer when we don't need it any more.
> 
> This was found by Coverity.
> 
> Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  builtin/update-index.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/update-index.c b/builtin/update-index.c
> index d74d72cc7f..ebfc09faa0 100644
> --- a/builtin/update-index.c
> +++ b/builtin/update-index.c
> @@ -125,12 +125,16 @@ static int test_if_untracked_cache_is_supported(void)
>  	struct stat st;
>  	struct stat_data base;
>  	int fd, ret = 0;
> +	char *cwd;
>  
>  	strbuf_addstr(&mtime_dir, "mtime-test-XXXXXX");
>  	if (!mkdtemp(mtime_dir.buf))
>  		die_errno("Could not make temporary directory");
>  
> -	fprintf(stderr, _("Testing mtime in '%s' "), xgetcwd());
> +	cwd = xgetcwd();
> +	fprintf(stderr, _("Testing mtime in '%s' "), cwd);
> +	free(cwd);
> +

Yep, this solution looks obviously correct to me.

-Peff



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