On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 06:59:09AM +0000, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit 96cc8ab531 ("sparse-checkout: use hashmaps for cone patterns",
> 2019-11-21) added a parent_hashmap and recursive_hashmap to each struct
> pattern_list and initialized these in add_patterns_from_buffer() but did
> not make sure to add necessary code to clear_pattern_list() to free
> these new structures. Call hashmap_free_() on each to plug this memory
> leak.
Beat you to it. :)
See: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200814111049.GA4101811@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
-Peff
