From: Andrzej Hunt <ajrhunt@xxxxxxxxxx> The primary goal of this change is to stop leaking init_db_template_dir. This leak can happen because: 1. git_init_db_config() allocates new memory into init_db_template_dir without first freeing the existing value. 2. init_db_template_dir might already contain data, either because: 2.1 git_config() can be invoked twice with this callback in a single process - at least 2 allocations are likely. 2.2 A single git_config() allocation can invoke the callback multiple times for a given key (see further explanation in the function docs) - each of those calls will trigger another leak. The simplest fix for the leak would be to free(init_db_template_dir) before overwriting it. Instead we choose to convert to fetching init.templatedir via git_config_get_value() as that is more explicit, more efficient, and avoids allocations (the returned result is owned by the config cache, so we aren't responsible for freeing it). If we remove init_db_template_dir, git_init_db_config() ends up being responsible only for forwarding core.* config values to platform_core_config(). However platform_core_config() already ignores non-core.* config values, so we can safely remove git_init_db_config() and invoke git_config() directly with platform_core_config() as the callback. The platform_core_config forwarding was originally added in: 287853392a (mingw: respect core.hidedotfiles = false in git-init again, 2019-03-11 And I suspect the potential for a leak existed since the original implementation of git_init_db_config in: 90b45187ba (Add `init.templatedir` configuration variable., 2010-02-17) LSAN output from t0001: Direct leak of 73 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from: #0 0x49a859 in realloc /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/llvm-11.0.0.src/build/../projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:164:3 #1 0x9a7276 in xrealloc /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/wrapper.c:126:8 #2 0x9362ad in strbuf_grow /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/strbuf.c:98:2 #3 0x936eaa in strbuf_add /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/strbuf.c:295:2 #4 0x868112 in strbuf_addstr /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/./strbuf.h:304:2 #5 0x86a8ad in expand_user_path /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/path.c:758:2 #6 0x720bb1 in git_config_pathname /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/config.c:1287:10 #7 0x5960e2 in git_init_db_config /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/builtin/init-db.c:161:11 #8 0x7255b8 in configset_iter /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/config.c:1982:7 #9 0x7253fc in repo_config /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/config.c:2311:2 #10 0x725ca7 in git_config /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/config.c:2399:2 #11 0x593e8d in create_default_files /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/builtin/init-db.c:225:2 #12 0x5935c6 in init_db /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/builtin/init-db.c:449:11 #13 0x59588e in cmd_init_db /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/builtin/init-db.c:714:9 #14 0x4cd60d in run_builtin /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:453:11 #15 0x4cb2da in handle_builtin /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:704:3 #16 0x4ccc37 in run_argv /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:771:4 #17 0x4cac29 in cmd_main /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:902:19 #18 0x69c4de in main /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/common-main.c:52:11 #19 0x7f23552d6349 in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x24349) Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hunt <ajrhunt@xxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/init-db.c | 28 +++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/init-db.c b/builtin/init-db.c index dcc45bef5148..d31dbc883746 100644 --- a/builtin/init-db.c +++ b/builtin/init-db.c @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ static int init_is_bare_repository = 0; static int init_shared_repository = -1; -static const char *init_db_template_dir; static void copy_templates_1(struct strbuf *path, struct strbuf *template_path, DIR *dir) @@ -94,7 +93,7 @@ static void copy_templates_1(struct strbuf *path, struct strbuf *template_path, } } -static void copy_templates(const char *template_dir) +static void copy_templates(const char *template_dir, const char *init_template_dir) { struct strbuf path = STRBUF_INIT; struct strbuf template_path = STRBUF_INIT; @@ -107,7 +106,7 @@ static void copy_templates(const char *template_dir) if (!template_dir) template_dir = getenv(TEMPLATE_DIR_ENVIRONMENT); if (!template_dir) - template_dir = init_db_template_dir; + template_dir = init_template_dir; if (!template_dir) template_dir = to_free = system_path(DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR); if (!template_dir[0]) { @@ -154,17 +153,6 @@ static void copy_templates(const char *template_dir) clear_repository_format(&template_format); } -static int git_init_db_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb) -{ - if (!strcmp(k, "init.templatedir")) - return git_config_pathname(&init_db_template_dir, k, v); - - if (starts_with(k, "core.")) - return platform_core_config(k, v, cb); - - return 0; -} - /* * If the git_dir is not directly inside the working tree, then git will not * find it by default, and we need to set the worktree explicitly. @@ -212,10 +200,7 @@ static int create_default_files(const char *template_path, int reinit; int filemode; struct strbuf err = STRBUF_INIT; - - /* Just look for `init.templatedir` */ - init_db_template_dir = NULL; /* re-set in case it was set before */ - git_config(git_init_db_config, NULL); + const char *init_template_dir = NULL; /* * First copy the templates -- we might have the default @@ -226,7 +211,8 @@ static int create_default_files(const char *template_path, * values (since we've just potentially changed what's available on * disk). */ - copy_templates(template_path); + git_config_get_value("init.templatedir", &init_template_dir); + copy_templates(template_path, init_template_dir); git_config_clear(); reset_shared_repository(); git_config(git_default_config, NULL); @@ -422,8 +408,8 @@ int init_db(const char *git_dir, const char *real_git_dir, } startup_info->have_repository = 1; - /* Just look for `core.hidedotfiles` */ - git_config(git_init_db_config, NULL); + /* Ensure `core.hidedotfiles` is processed */ + git_config(platform_core_config, NULL); safe_create_dir(git_dir, 0); -- gitgitgadget