On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 09:49:35PM +0000, Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget wrote: > 2: 603bd1d4f6e ! 2: 1ddcfe61ebc reftable: fix resource leak in error path > @@ reftable/block.c: int block_reader_init(struct block_reader *br, struct reftable > > if (typ == BLOCK_TYPE_LOG) { > int block_header_skip = 4 + header_off; > +@@ reftable/block.c: int block_reader_init(struct block_reader *br, struct reftable_block *block, > + uLongf src_len = block->len - block_header_skip; > + /* Log blocks specify the *uncompressed* size in their header. > + */ > +- uint8_t *uncompressed = reftable_malloc(sz); > ++ uncompressed = reftable_malloc(sz); > + > + /* Copy over the block header verbatim. It's not compressed. */ > + memcpy(uncompressed, block->data, block_header_skip); This drops the shadowed variable, but it needs a little more. In one of the error blocks we still free the variable, and then jump to the "done" label, which will try to free it again. So you need: diff --git a/reftable/block.c b/reftable/block.c index 0bc4a5d84b..6d55817e0d 100644 --- a/reftable/block.c +++ b/reftable/block.c @@ -215,7 +215,6 @@ int block_reader_init(struct block_reader *br, struct reftable_block *block, if (Z_OK != uncompress2(uncompressed + block_header_skip, &dst_len, block->data + block_header_skip, &src_len)) { - reftable_free(uncompressed); err = REFTABLE_ZLIB_ERROR; goto done; } to avoid the double-free. I think it's otherwise OK. The other error case does not try to free, and in the success case we hand off ownership of "uncompressed" and set it back to NULL. I doubt this is the cause of the segfault on Windows, though (I saw it via Coverity). That one still puzzles me, and I suspect will need more output to figure out. It's possible to get an interactive session on the Windows VM running the CI: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debugging-with-tmate but I haven't tried it myself. I'm also not sure what tools are available there (gdb sure would be nice, but even a backtrace of the segfault would be quite a lot; I wonder if we could build with ASan on Windows). -Peff