Ideally we'd free the existing gitdir field before assigning
the new one, to avoid a memory leak. But we can't do so
safely because some callers do the equivalent of:
set_git_dir(get_git_dir());
We can detect that case as a noop, but there are even more
complicated cases like:
set_git_dir(remove_leading_path(worktree, get_git_dir());
where we really do need to do some work, but the original
string must remain valid.
Rather than put the burden on callers to make a copy of the
string (only to free it later, since we'll make a copy of it
ourselves), let's solve the problem inside set_git_dir(). We
can make a copy of the pointer for the old gitdir, and then
avoid freeing it until after we've made our new copy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
---
repository.c | 10 +++-------
setup.c | 5 -----
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/repository.c b/repository.c
index 52f1821c6b..97c732bd48 100644
--- a/repository.c
+++ b/repository.c
@@ -56,16 +56,12 @@ static void repo_setup_env(struct repository *repo)
void repo_set_gitdir(struct repository *repo, const char *path)
{
const char *gitfile = read_gitfile(path);
+ char *old_gitdir = repo->gitdir;
- /*
- * NEEDSWORK: Eventually we want to be able to free gitdir and the rest
- * of the environment before reinitializing it again, but we have some
- * crazy code paths where we try to set gitdir with the current gitdir
- * and we don't want to free gitdir before copying the passed in value.
- */
repo->gitdir = xstrdup(gitfile ? gitfile : path);
-
repo_setup_env(repo);
+
+ free(old_gitdir);
}
/*
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 23950173fc..6d8380acd2 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -399,11 +399,6 @@ void setup_work_tree(void)
if (getenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT))
setenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, ".", 1);
- /*
- * NEEDSWORK: this call can essentially be set_git_dir(get_git_dir())
- * which can cause some problems when trying to free the old value of
- * gitdir.
- */
set_git_dir(remove_leading_path(git_dir, work_tree));
initialized = 1;
}
--
2.14.1.721.gc5bc1565f1
