If we were listing objects too then the objects were buffered in an array only reachable from a stack allocated structure. When this function returns that array would be leaked as nobody would have a reference to it anymore. Historically this hasn't been a problem as the primary user of traverse_commit_list() (the noble git-rev-list) would terminate as soon as the function was finished, thus allowing the operating system to cleanup memory. However we have been leaking this data in git-pack-objects ever since that program learned how to run the revision listing internally, rather than relying on reading object names from git-rev-list. To better facilitate reuse of traverse_commit_list during other builtin tools (such as git-fetch) we shouldn't leak temporary memory like this and instead we need to clean up properly after ourselves. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- list-objects.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/list-objects.c b/list-objects.c index e5c88c2..713bef9 100644 --- a/list-objects.c +++ b/list-objects.c @@ -170,4 +170,11 @@ void traverse_commit_list(struct rev_info *revs, } for (i = 0; i < objects.nr; i++) show_object(&objects.objects[i]); + free(objects.objects); + if (revs->pending.nr) { + revs->pending.nr = 0; + revs->pending.alloc = 0; + revs->pending.objects = NULL; + free(revs->pending.objects); + } } -- 1.5.3.5.1622.g41d10 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html