Fix a memory leak that's been reported by some versions of "gcc" since "output_state" became malloc'd in 55a9651d26a (upload-pack.c: increase output buffer size, 2021-12-14). In e75d2f7f734 (revisions API: have release_revisions() release "filter", 2022-04-13) it was correctly marked as leak-free, the only path through this function that doesn't reach the free(output_state) is if we "goto fail", and that will invoke "die()". Such leaks are not included with SANITIZE=leak (but e.g. valgrind will still report them), but under some gcc optimization (I have not been able to reproduce it with "clang") we'll report a leak here anyway. E.g. gcc v12 with "-O2" and above will trigger it, but not clang v13 with any "-On". The GitHub CI would also run into this leak if the "linux-leaks" job was made to run with "GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true". See [1] for a past case where gcc had similar trouble analyzing leaks involving a die() invocation in the function. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/patch-v3-5.6-9a44204c4c9-20211022T175227Z-avarab@xxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- t/t1060-object-corruption.sh | 1 + upload-pack.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/t/t1060-object-corruption.sh b/t/t1060-object-corruption.sh index e8a58b15897..5b8e47e346c 100755 --- a/t/t1060-object-corruption.sh +++ b/t/t1060-object-corruption.sh @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ test_description='see how we handle various forms of corruption' +TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true . ./test-lib.sh # convert "1234abcd" to ".git/objects/12/34abcd" diff --git a/upload-pack.c b/upload-pack.c index 3a851b36066..b3884d3f4de 100644 --- a/upload-pack.c +++ b/upload-pack.c @@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ static void create_pack_file(struct upload_pack_data *pack_data, return; fail: + free(output_state); send_client_data(3, abort_msg, sizeof(abort_msg), pack_data->use_sideband); die("git upload-pack: %s", abort_msg); -- 2.37.1.1064.gc96144cf387