When calling `make_cover_letter()` without a branch name, then we try to
derive the branch name by calling `find_branch_name()`. But while this
function returns an allocated string, we never free the result and thus
have a memory leak. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx>
---
builtin/log.c | 4 +++-
t/t3206-range-diff.sh | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index 4d4b60caa7..a73a767606 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -1434,6 +1434,7 @@ static void make_cover_letter(struct rev_info *rev, int use_separate_file,
int need_8bit_cte = 0;
struct pretty_print_context pp = {0};
struct commit *head = list[0];
+ char *to_free = NULL;
if (!cmit_fmt_is_mail(rev->commit_format))
die(_("cover letter needs email format"));
@@ -1455,7 +1456,7 @@ static void make_cover_letter(struct rev_info *rev, int use_separate_file,
}
if (!branch_name)
- branch_name = find_branch_name(rev);
+ branch_name = to_free = find_branch_name(rev);
pp.fmt = CMIT_FMT_EMAIL;
pp.date_mode.type = DATE_RFC2822;
@@ -1466,6 +1467,7 @@ static void make_cover_letter(struct rev_info *rev, int use_separate_file,
encoding, need_8bit_cte, cfg);
fprintf(rev->diffopt.file, "%s\n", sb.buf);
+ free(to_free);
free(pp.after_subject);
strbuf_release(&sb);
diff --git a/t/t3206-range-diff.sh b/t/t3206-range-diff.sh
index a767c3520e..973e20254b 100755
--- a/t/t3206-range-diff.sh
+++ b/t/t3206-range-diff.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ test_description='range-diff tests'
GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=main
export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
. ./test-lib.sh
# Note that because of the range-diff's heuristics, test_commit does more
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