From: Andrzej Hunt <ajrhunt@xxxxxxxxxx>
real_ref was previously populated by dwim_ref(), which allocates new
memory. We need to make sure to free real_ref when discarding it.
(real_ref is already being freed at the end of create_branch() - but
if we discard it early then it will leak.)
This fixes the following leak found while running t0002-t0099:
Direct leak of 5 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x486954 in strdup /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/llvm-11.0.0.src/build/../projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_interceptors.cpp:452:3
#1 0xdd6484 in xstrdup wrapper.c:29:14
#2 0xc0f658 in expand_ref refs.c:671:12
#3 0xc0ecf1 in repo_dwim_ref refs.c:644:22
#4 0x8b1184 in dwim_ref ./refs.h:162:9
#5 0x8b0b02 in create_branch branch.c:284:10
#6 0x550cbb in update_refs_for_switch builtin/checkout.c:1046:4
#7 0x54e275 in switch_branches builtin/checkout.c:1274:2
#8 0x548828 in checkout_branch builtin/checkout.c:1668:9
#9 0x541306 in checkout_main builtin/checkout.c:2025:9
#10 0x5395fa in cmd_checkout builtin/checkout.c:2077:8
#11 0x4d02a8 in run_builtin git.c:467:11
#12 0x4cbfe9 in handle_builtin git.c:719:3
#13 0x4cf04f in run_argv git.c:808:4
#14 0x4cb85a in cmd_main git.c:939:19
#15 0x820cf6 in main common-main.c:52:11
#16 0x7f30bd9dd349 in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x24349)
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hunt <ajrhunt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
branch.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
index 9c9dae1eae32..514a3311d8d1 100644
--- a/branch.c
+++ b/branch.c
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ void create_branch(struct repository *r,
if (explicit_tracking)
die(_(upstream_not_branch), start_name);
else
- real_ref = NULL;
+ FREE_AND_NULL(real_ref);
}
break;
default:
--
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