511726e4b1 ("builtin/notes: fix premature failure when trying to add the empty blob", 2014-11-09) removed the check for !len but left a call to free the buffer that will be otherwise NULL Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/notes.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/notes.c b/builtin/notes.c index c05cd004ab..68062f7475 100644 --- a/builtin/notes.c +++ b/builtin/notes.c @@ -255,10 +255,8 @@ static int parse_reuse_arg(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset) if (get_oid(arg, &object)) die(_("failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), arg); - if (!(buf = read_object_file(&object, &type, &len))) { - free(buf); + if (!(buf = read_object_file(&object, &type, &len))) die(_("failed to read object '%s'."), arg); - } if (type != OBJ_BLOB) { free(buf); die(_("cannot read note data from non-blob object '%s'."), arg); -- 2.19.1.856.g8858448bb