To ensure that copied refs can always be freed w/o causing a double-free, make copy_ref() perform a deep copy. Also have copy_ref() return NULL if asked to copy NULL to simplify things for the caller. Background: currently copy_ref() performs a shallow copy. This is fine for current callers who never free the result and/or only copy refs which contain NULL pointers. But copy_ref() is about to gain a new caller (guess_remote_head()) which copies refs where peer_ref is not NULL and the caller of guess_remote_head() will want to free the result. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> --- This is a new patch, which should come after 07/21 in the original series - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111394 remote.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c index aed760e..22203ea 100644 --- a/remote.c +++ b/remote.c @@ -779,10 +779,18 @@ struct ref *alloc_ref(const char *name) static struct ref *copy_ref(const struct ref *ref) { - struct ref *ret = xmalloc(sizeof(struct ref) + strlen(ref->name) + 1); - memcpy(ret, ref, sizeof(struct ref) + strlen(ref->name) + 1); - ret->next = NULL; - return ret; + struct ref *cpy; + size_t len; + if (!ref) + return NULL; + len = strlen(ref->name); + cpy = xmalloc(sizeof(struct ref) + len + 1); + memcpy(cpy, ref, sizeof(struct ref) + len + 1); + cpy->next = NULL; + cpy->symref = ref->symref ? xstrdup(ref->symref) : NULL; + cpy->remote_status = ref->remote_status ? xstrdup(ref->remote_status) : NULL; + cpy->peer_ref = copy_ref(ref->peer_ref); + return cpy; } struct ref *copy_ref_list(const struct ref *ref) @@ -801,6 +809,7 @@ static void free_ref(struct ref *ref) { if (!ref) return; + free_ref(ref->peer_ref); free(ref->remote_status); free(ref->symref); free(ref); @@ -811,7 +820,6 @@ void free_refs(struct ref *ref) struct ref *next; while (ref) { next = ref->next; - free(ref->peer_ref); free_ref(ref); ref = next; } -- 1.6.2.rc1.309.g5f417 -- 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