The function `stage_tmp_packfiles()` generates a filename to use for staging the contents of what will become the pack's ".rev" file. The name is generated in `write_rev_file_order()` (via its caller `write_rev_file()`) in a string buffer, and the result is returned back to `stage_tmp_packfiles()` which uses it to rename the temporary file into place via `rename_tmp_packfiles()`. That name is not visible outside of `stage_tmp_packfiles()`, so it can (and should) be `free()`'d at the end of that function. We can't free it in `rename_tmp_packfile()` since not all of its `source` arguments are unreachable after calling it. Instead, simply free() `rev_tmp_name` at the end of `stage_tmp_packfiles()`. (Note that the same leak exists for `mtimes_tmp_name`, but we do not address it in this commit). Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- pack-write.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/pack-write.c b/pack-write.c index f171405495..f27c1f7f28 100644 --- a/pack-write.c +++ b/pack-write.c @@ -568,6 +568,8 @@ void stage_tmp_packfiles(struct strbuf *name_buffer, rename_tmp_packfile(name_buffer, rev_tmp_name, "rev"); if (mtimes_tmp_name) rename_tmp_packfile(name_buffer, mtimes_tmp_name, "mtimes"); + + free((char *)rev_tmp_name); } void write_promisor_file(const char *promisor_name, struct ref **sought, int nr_sought) -- 2.40.0.323.g9c80379958
