From: Andrzej Hunt <ajrhunt@xxxxxxxxxx> - cmd_rebase populates rebase_options.strategy with newly allocated strings, hence we need to free those strings at the end of cmd_rebase to avoid a leak. - In some cases: get_replay_opts() is called, which prepares replay_opts using data from rebase_options. We used to simply copy the pointer from rebase_options.strategy, however that would now result in a double-free because sequencer_remove_state() is eventually used to free replay_opts.strategy. To avoid this we xstrdup() strategy when adding it to replay_opts. The original leak happens because we always populate rebase_options.strategy, but we don't always enter the path that calls get_replay_opts() and later sequencer_remove_state() - in other words we'd always allocate a new string into rebase_options.strategy but only sometimes did we free it. We now make sure that rebase_options and replay_opts both own their own copies of strategy, and each copy is free'd independently. This was first seen when running t0021 with LSAN, but t2012 helped catch the fact that we can't just free(options.strategy) at the end of cmd_rebase (as that can cause a double-free). LSAN output from t0021: LSAN output from t0021: Direct leak of 4 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from: #0 0x486804 in strdup ../projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_interceptors.cpp:452:3 #1 0xa71eb8 in xstrdup wrapper.c:29:14 #2 0x61b1cc in cmd_rebase builtin/rebase.c:1779:22 #3 0x4ce83e in run_builtin git.c:475:11 #4 0x4ccafe in handle_builtin git.c:729:3 #5 0x4cb01c in run_argv git.c:818:4 #6 0x4cb01c in cmd_main git.c:949:19 #7 0x6b3fad in main common-main.c:52:11 #8 0x7f267b512349 in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x24349) SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 4 byte(s) leaked in 1 allocation(s). Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hunt <andrzej@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/rebase.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/rebase.c b/builtin/rebase.c index 12f093121d..33e0961900 100644 --- a/builtin/rebase.c +++ b/builtin/rebase.c @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ static struct replay_opts get_replay_opts(const struct rebase_options *opts) replay.ignore_date = opts->ignore_date; replay.gpg_sign = xstrdup_or_null(opts->gpg_sign_opt); if (opts->strategy) - replay.strategy = opts->strategy; + replay.strategy = xstrdup_or_null(opts->strategy); else if (!replay.strategy && replay.default_strategy) { replay.strategy = replay.default_strategy; replay.default_strategy = NULL; @@ -2109,6 +2109,7 @@ int cmd_rebase(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) free(options.head_name); free(options.gpg_sign_opt); free(options.cmd); + free(options.strategy); strbuf_release(&options.git_format_patch_opt); free(squash_onto_name); return ret; -- 2.26.2