From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] revisions API: don't leak memory on argv elements that need free()-ing
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:04:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YuQvUDlGPTHu2sOm@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk07v69bh.fsf@gitster.g>
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:52:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > The more interesting question is whether it causes any use-after-free
> > bugs.
>
> Thanks for mentioning this. All the "plug more leaks" patches make
> me worried for exactly that. Another is a potential subtle breakage
> hidden by use of FREE_AND_NULL() and friends, which the sanitizers
> would probably not see, but can appear as behaviour change.
Yeah, agreed that is a potential pitfall.
> > I don't think it does, and certainly SANITIZE=address agrees.
>
> ;-)
Just to expound a bit: I'm quite sure _this_ call site is fine, because
we are passing pretty vanilla options to setup_revisions(), and I looked
at how we handle the strings there. I'd worry a little more that there's
some dark corner of setup_revisions() which relies on memory lifetimes,
and so this isn't a safe thing to do in the general case.
But IMHO we should assume that setup_revisions() makes copies of strings
it needs, and if there is a dark corner where it doesn't, we should find
and fix that.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-29 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-13 13:10 [PATCH 0/6] revisions API: fix more memory leaks Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-13 13:10 ` [PATCH 1/6] bisect.c: add missing "goto" for release_revisions() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-13 13:10 ` [PATCH 2/6] test-fast-rebase helper: use release_revisions() (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-13 13:10 ` [PATCH 3/6] log: make the intent of cmd_show()'s "rev.pending" juggling clearer Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-18 14:51 ` Jeff King
2022-07-13 13:10 ` [PATCH 4/6] log: fix common "rev.pending" memory leak in "git show" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-18 14:57 ` Jeff King
2022-07-18 15:08 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-13 13:10 ` [PATCH 5/6] bisect.c: partially fix bisect_rev_setup() memory leak Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-18 15:05 ` Jeff King
2022-07-13 13:10 ` [PATCH 6/6] revisions API: don't leak memory on argv elements that need free()-ing Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-18 15:11 ` Jeff King
2022-07-18 15:13 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-18 15:45 ` Jeff King
2022-07-29 7:07 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-29 18:03 ` Jeff King
2022-07-29 18:37 ` Jeff King
2022-07-29 18:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-29 19:04 ` Jeff King [this message]
2022-07-18 15:14 ` [PATCH 0/6] revisions API: fix more memory leaks Jeff King
2022-07-29 8:31 ` [PATCH v2 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-29 8:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] bisect.c: add missing "goto" for release_revisions() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-29 8:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] test-fast-rebase helper: use release_revisions() (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-30 5:22 ` Eric Sunshine
2022-07-29 8:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] log: make the intent of cmd_show()'s "rev.pending" juggling clearer Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-29 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-29 8:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] log: fix common "rev.pending" memory leak in "git show" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-29 18:55 ` Jeff King
2022-07-29 19:07 ` Jeff King
2022-07-29 18:59 ` Jeff King
2022-07-29 8:31 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] bisect.c: partially fix bisect_rev_setup() memory leak Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-29 8:31 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] revisions API: don't leak memory on argv elements that need free()-ing Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-29 19:00 ` Jeff King
2022-07-29 19:02 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] revisions API: fix more memory leaks Jeff King
2022-08-02 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-02 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] bisect.c: add missing "goto" for release_revisions() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-03 17:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-02 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] test-fast-rebase helper: use release_revisions() (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-02 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] log: fix a memory leak in "git show <revision>..." Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-03 17:27 ` Jeff King
2022-08-03 17:29 ` Jeff King
2022-08-03 17:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-02 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] log: refactor "rev.pending" code in cmd_show() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-03 17:32 ` Jeff King
2022-08-03 17:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-04 7:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-04 15:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-05 9:01 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-02 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] bisect.c: partially fix bisect_rev_setup() memory leak Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-02 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] revisions API: don't leak memory on argv elements that need free()-ing Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-03 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-03 17:33 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] revisions API: fix more memory leaks Jeff King
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