Fix a memory leak occuring in case of pathspec copy in preload_index. Direct leak of 8 byte(s) in 8 object(s) allocated from: #0 0x7f0a353ead47 in __interceptor_malloc (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0/libasan.so.6+0xb5d47) #1 0x55750995e840 in do_xmalloc /home/anthony/src/c/git/wrapper.c:51 #2 0x55750995e840 in xmalloc /home/anthony/src/c/git/wrapper.c:72 #3 0x55750970f824 in copy_pathspec /home/anthony/src/c/git/pathspec.c:684 #4 0x557509717278 in preload_index /home/anthony/src/c/git/preload-index.c:135 #5 0x55750975f21e in refresh_index /home/anthony/src/c/git/read-cache.c:1633 #6 0x55750915b926 in cmd_status builtin/commit.c:1547 #7 0x5575090e1680 in run_builtin /home/anthony/src/c/git/git.c:466 #8 0x5575090e1680 in handle_builtin /home/anthony/src/c/git/git.c:720 #9 0x5575090e284a in run_argv /home/anthony/src/c/git/git.c:787 #10 0x5575090e284a in cmd_main /home/anthony/src/c/git/git.c:920 #11 0x5575090dbf82 in main /home/anthony/src/c/git/common-main.c:56 #12 0x7f0a348230ab (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x290ab) Signed-off-by: Anthony Delannoy <anthony.2lannoy@xxxxxxxxx> --- preload-index.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/preload-index.c b/preload-index.c index e5529a5863..a05f4d1390 100644 --- a/preload-index.c +++ b/preload-index.c @@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ void preload_index(struct index_state *index, if (pthread_join(p->pthread, NULL)) die("unable to join threaded lstat"); t2_sum_lstat += p->t2_nr_lstat; + + if (pathspec) + free(p->pathspec.items); } stop_progress(&pd.progress); -- 2.35.1