Re: [PATCH v2 11/22] trailer: fix leaking strbufs when formatting trailers

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On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 04:31:34PM -0600, Justin Tobler wrote:
> On 24/10/21 11:28AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > We are populating, but never releasing two string buffers in
> > `format_trailers()`, causing a memory leak. Plug this leak by lifting
> > those buffers outside of the loop and releasing them on function return.
> > This fixes the memory leaks, but also optimizes the loop as we don't
> > have to reallocate the buffers on every single iteration.
> 
> I see that we were previously calling `strbuf_release()` inside of the
> loop. In practice were these never hit? Or just sometimes skipped my the
> "continue" in the loop? The commit message makes it sound like the
> former.

True, "never" is definitely too strong of a wording here. Will adapt,
thanks!

Patrick




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