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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 6/7] config: fix leak in git_config_get_expiry_in_days()
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:33:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200817213313.GF1854722@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200817213228.GA1854603@coredump.intra.peff.net>

We use git_config_get_string() to retrieve the expiry value in a newly
allocated string. But after parsing it, we never free it, leaking the
memory.

We could fix this with a free() obviously, but there's an even better
solution: we can use the non-allocating "tmp" variant of the function;
we only need it to be valid for the lifetime of our parse function.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 config.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index f0367c76ad..2bdff4457b 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -2300,11 +2300,11 @@ int git_config_get_expiry(const char *key, const char **output)
 
 int git_config_get_expiry_in_days(const char *key, timestamp_t *expiry, timestamp_t now)
 {
-	char *expiry_string;
+	const char *expiry_string;
 	intmax_t days;
 	timestamp_t when;
 
-	if (git_config_get_string(key, &expiry_string))
+	if (git_config_get_string_tmp(key, &expiry_string))
 		return 1; /* no such thing */
 
 	if (git_parse_signed(expiry_string, &days, maximum_signed_value_of_type(int))) {
-- 
2.28.0.605.g35fde94f44


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-17 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-14 16:13 [PATCH 0/6] more small leak fixes Jeff King
2020-08-14 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/6] submodule--helper: use strbuf_release() to free strbufs Jeff King
2020-08-14 16:14 ` [PATCH 2/6] checkout: fix leak of non-existent branch names Jeff King
2020-08-14 16:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] config: fix leaks from git_config_get_string_const() Jeff King
2020-08-14 16:19 ` [PATCH 4/6] config: drop git_config_get_string_const() Jeff King
2020-08-14 20:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-15  6:34     ` Jeff King
2020-08-17 17:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-14 16:19 ` [PATCH 5/6] config: fix leak in git_config_get_expiry_in_days() Jeff King
2020-08-14 16:20 ` [PATCH 6/6] submodule--helper: fix leak of core.worktree value Jeff King
2020-08-14 16:25 ` [PATCH 0/6] more small leak fixes Jeff King
2020-08-14 16:27   ` Jeff King
2020-08-17 21:32 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] " Jeff King
2020-08-17 21:33   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] clear_pattern_list(): clear embedded hashmaps Jeff King
2020-08-17 21:33   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] submodule--helper: use strbuf_release() to free strbufs Jeff King
2020-08-17 21:33   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] checkout: fix leak of non-existent branch names Jeff King
2020-08-17 21:33   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] config: fix leaks from git_config_get_string_const() Jeff King
2020-08-17 21:33   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] config: drop git_config_get_string_const() Jeff King
2020-08-17 21:33   ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-08-17 21:33   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] submodule--helper: fix leak of core.worktree value Jeff King

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