Re: [PATCH 2/2] am: plug FILE * leak in split_mail_conv()

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 04:35:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>> ---
>>  builtin/am.c | 4 +++-
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/builtin/am.c b/builtin/am.c
>> index f1a84c6..a373928 100644
>> --- a/builtin/am.c
>> +++ b/builtin/am.c
>> @@ -761,9 +761,11 @@ static int split_mail_conv(mail_conv_fn fn, struct am_state *state,
>>               mail = mkpath("%s/%0*d", state->dir, state->prec, i + 1);
>>
>>               out = fopen(mail, "w");
>> -             if (!out)
>> +             if (!out) {
>> +                     fclose(in);
>>                       return error(_("could not open '%s' for writing: %s"),
>>                                       mail, strerror(errno));
>> +             }
>
> Presumably `fclose` doesn't ever overwrite errno in practice, but I
> guess it could in theory.

It probably does pretty often in general, but not when the file is
opened for input only.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson