Re: [PATCH] protocol-caps.c: fix memory leak in send_info()

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:46 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[Replying again as I used HTML mail by mistake. Sorry.]

> Fix a memory leak in a2ba162cda (object-info: support for retrieving
> object info, 2021-04-20) which appears to have been based on a
> misunderstanding of how the pkt-line.c API works. There is no need to
> strdup() input to packet_writer_write(), it's just a printf()-like
> format function.
>
> This fixes a potentially large memory leak, since the number of OID
> lines the "object-info" call can be arbitrarily large (or a small one
> if the request is small).
>
> This makes t5701-git-serve.sh pass again under SANITIZE=leak, as it
> did before a2ba162cda2.


Thanks for cleaning up after me. Yes, this was my lack of knowledge on
how the internals of Git works. I was also not aware of SANITIZE=leak
so thanks for the heads up. This looks good to me.




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