In the (admittedly, concocted) case that PATH consists only of path delimiters, we would leak the duplicated string. Reported by Coverity. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- compat/mingw.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index 3fbfda5978b..fe0e3ccd248 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -961,8 +961,10 @@ static char **get_path_split(void) ++n; } } - if (!n) + if (!n) { + free(envpath); return NULL; + } ALLOC_ARRAY(path, n + 1); p = envpath; -- 2.12.2.windows.2.800.gede8f145e06