update_submodule() uses duplicated code to compute update_data->displaypath and next.recursive_prefix. The latter is just the former with "/" appended to it, and since update_data->displaypath not changed outside of this statement, we can just reuse the already computed result. We can go one step further and remove the reference to next.recursive_prefix altogether. Since it is only used in update_data_to_args() (to compute the "--recursive-prefix" flag for the recursive update child process) we can just use the already computed .displaypath value of there. Delete the duplicated code, and remove the unnecessary reference to next.recursive_prefix. As a bonus, this fixes a memory leak where prefixed_path was never freed (this leak was first reported in [1]). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/877a45867ae368bf9e053caedcb6cf421e02344d.1655336146.git.gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/submodule--helper.c | 15 ++++----------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c index 9381127d56..4a0eb05ba2 100644 --- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c +++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c @@ -2416,9 +2416,10 @@ static void update_data_to_args(struct update_data *update_data, struct strvec * strvec_pushl(args, "submodule--helper", "update", "--recursive", NULL); strvec_pushf(args, "--jobs=%d", update_data->max_jobs); - if (update_data->recursive_prefix) - strvec_pushl(args, "--recursive-prefix", - update_data->recursive_prefix, NULL); + if (update_data->displaypath) { + strvec_push(args, "--recursive-prefix"); + strvec_pushf(args, "%s/", update_data->displaypath); + } if (update_data->quiet) strvec_push(args, "--quiet"); if (update_data->force) @@ -2514,14 +2515,6 @@ static int update_submodule(struct update_data *update_data) struct update_data next = *update_data; int res; - if (update_data->recursive_prefix) - prefixed_path = xstrfmt("%s%s/", update_data->recursive_prefix, - update_data->sm_path); - else - prefixed_path = xstrfmt("%s/", update_data->sm_path); - - next.recursive_prefix = get_submodule_displaypath(prefixed_path, - update_data->prefix); next.prefix = NULL; oidcpy(&next.oid, null_oid()); oidcpy(&next.suboid, null_oid()); -- 2.37.0.rc0.161.g10f37bed90-goog