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mailmap: plug memory leak in read_mailmap_blob()

Message ID xmqqcyn112xi.fsf@gitster.g (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit d98d9c77e5d9ac0b0663069e05a512037b9279cf
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Series mailmap: plug memory leak in read_mailmap_blob() | expand

Commit Message

Junio C Hamano July 25, 2024, 11:12 p.m. UTC
When a named object to read mailmap from is not a blob, the code
correctly errors out, but it forgot to free the object data before
doing so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 mailmap.c          | 4 +++-
 t/t4203-mailmap.sh | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Jeff King July 26, 2024, 4:44 a.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 04:12:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> When a named object to read mailmap from is not a blob, the code
> correctly errors out, but it forgot to free the object data before
> doing so.
> [..]
> -	if (type != OBJ_BLOB)
> +	if (type != OBJ_BLOB) {
> +		free(buf);
>  		return error("mailmap is not a blob: %s", name);
> +	}

Looks obviously correct. This one is almost certainly my fault.

-Peff
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Patch

diff --git a/mailmap.c b/mailmap.c
index 2d0212f444..2acf97f307 100644
--- a/mailmap.c
+++ b/mailmap.c
@@ -201,8 +201,10 @@  static int read_mailmap_blob(struct string_list *map, const char *name)
 	buf = repo_read_object_file(the_repository, &oid, &type, &size);
 	if (!buf)
 		return error("unable to read mailmap object at %s", name);
-	if (type != OBJ_BLOB)
+	if (type != OBJ_BLOB) {
+		free(buf);
 		return error("mailmap is not a blob: %s", name);
+	}
 
 	read_mailmap_string(map, buf);
 
diff --git a/t/t4203-mailmap.sh b/t/t4203-mailmap.sh
index 8a88dd7900..79e5f42760 100755
--- a/t/t4203-mailmap.sh
+++ b/t/t4203-mailmap.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@  test_description='.mailmap configurations'
 GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=main
 export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME
 
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 test_expect_success 'setup commits and contacts file' '