On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 01:34:17AM -0800, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > diff --git a/builtin/rebase.c b/builtin/rebase.c > index 0ee06aa363..6f6d7de156 100644 > --- a/builtin/rebase.c > +++ b/builtin/rebase.c > @@ -569,16 +569,13 @@ static int reset_head(struct object_id *oid, const char *action, > } > > if (!fill_tree_descriptor(&desc, oid)) { > - error(_("failed to find tree of %s"), oid_to_hex(oid)); > - rollback_lock_file(&lock); > - free((void *)desc.buffer); > - return -1; > + ret = error(_("failed to find tree of %s"), oid_to_hex(oid)); > + goto leave_reset_head; > } If fill_tree_descriptor() fails, what is left in desc.buffer? Looking at the implementation, I think it's always NULL or a valid buffer. But I think all code paths actually die() unless we pass a NULL oid (and in that case desc.buffer would be NULL, too). So I think the original here that calls free() doesn't ever do anything but it did not hurt. After your patch, the leave_reset_head code would continue to call free(), and that's OK. There are a few earlier conditionals in reset_head() that do only rollback_lock_file() that could similarly be converted to use the goto. But they would need desc.buffer to be initialized to NULL. I could go either way on converting them or not. > @@ -586,10 +583,9 @@ static int reset_head(struct object_id *oid, const char *action, > > if (write_locked_index(the_repository->index, &lock, COMMIT_LOCK) < 0) > ret = error(_("could not write index")); > - free((void *)desc.buffer); > > if (ret) > - return ret; > + goto leave_reset_head; > > reflog_action = getenv(GIT_REFLOG_ACTION_ENVIRONMENT); > strbuf_addf(&msg, "%s: ", reflog_action ? reflog_action : "rebase"); > @@ -622,7 +618,10 @@ static int reset_head(struct object_id *oid, const char *action, > UPDATE_REFS_MSG_ON_ERR); > } > > +leave_reset_head: > strbuf_release(&msg); > + rollback_lock_file(&lock); > + free((void *)desc.buffer); > return ret; We get here on success, too. So we may call rollback_lock_file() on an already-committed lock. This is explicitly documented as a no-op by the lock code, so that's OK. So overall looks good to me. -Peff