Re: [PATCH 3/5] submodule: helper to run foreach in parallel

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:28:24AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

> +int module_foreach_parallel(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> +{
> [...]
> +	for (i = 0; i < ce_used; i++) {
> +		const struct submodule *sub;
> +		const struct cache_entry *ce = ce_entries[i];
> +		struct submodule_args *args = malloc(sizeof(*args));
> +
> +		if (ce_stage(ce))
> +			args->sha1 = xstrdup(sha1_to_hex(null_sha1));
> +		else
> +			args->sha1 = xstrdup(sha1_to_hex(ce->sha1));
> +
> +		strbuf_reset(&sb);
> +		strbuf_addf(&sb, "%s/.git", ce->name);
> +		if (!file_exists(sb.buf))
> +			continue;

"args" and "args->sha1" go out of scope and leak here.

> +		args->name = sub->name;
> +		args->toplevel = xstrdup(xgetcwd());

Another xgetcwd leak. :) I think this one can just drop the xstrdup.

(Both of these were spotted by Coverity. I know you have played with it
a little, so if you are actually reading the emails it sends, I'll stop
relaying them).

-Peff