It would appear that we allocate (and forget to release) memory if the patch ID is not even defined. Reported by the Coverity tool. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- patch-ids.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/patch-ids.c b/patch-ids.c index fa8f11de826..92eba7a059e 100644 --- a/patch-ids.c +++ b/patch-ids.c @@ -99,11 +99,12 @@ struct patch_id *has_commit_patch_id(struct commit *commit, struct patch_id *add_commit_patch_id(struct commit *commit, struct patch_ids *ids) { - struct patch_id *key = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*key)); + struct patch_id *key; if (!patch_id_defined(commit)) return NULL; + key = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*key)); if (init_patch_id_entry(key, commit, ids)) { free(key); return NULL; -- 2.12.2.windows.2.800.gede8f145e06