From: Andrzej Hunt <andrzej@ahunt.org>
To: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Andrzej Hunt via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>,
Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com>,
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Andrzej Hunt <ajrhunt@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit-graph: avoid leaking topo_levels slab in write_commit_graph()
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:14:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfc713c2-c5f6-6c7f-230b-810da0e39ebf@ahunt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ef5487b-905d-8f34-a53c-d1138f5528d9@gmail.com>
On 22/02/2021 15:15, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> This change looks like a sane change to me. It definitely fixes a leak.
> The leak "wasn't hurting anybody" because write_commit_graph() is only
> called at most once per process, and the process closes itself out
> shortly after. Still, it's good to have good memory hygiene here.
Good to know - thank you! As I become more familiar with git, I'm
beginning to realise that most leaks are unlikely to be much importance
(even though I personally err on the side of fixing any and all issues).
One thing I forgot to mention: in this specific case the leak was
causing a build failure when trying to build git's fuzzers within
oss-fuzz locally*. Specifically the following command would fail (see
also fuzz failure reproduction instructions which describe the setup [1]).
$ python infra/helper.py build_fuzzers --sanitizer address git
As far as I can tell the issue is that: a copy of git built with ASAN is
used to produce the fuzzing corpus as part of the git-specific build
script [2] - the leak warning causes the script to fail. (It's possible
to argue that the build script should disable ASAN's leak checking when
running git, via detect_leaks=0 to reduce the risk of such breakage - I
may try to suggest such a change to oss-fuzz.)
ATB,
Andrzej
* Given that oss-fuzz is building via docker, I would intuitively
suspect that the same issue occurs in automation - I'm not sure how to
verify this myself.
[1]
https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz/advanced-topics/reproducing/#building-using-docker
[2]
https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/blob/1b0115eefd70491376cf3cb6f88e49632c78ee18/projects/git/build.sh#L37
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-19 20:13 [PATCH] commit-graph: avoid leaking topo_levels slab in write_commit_graph() Andrzej Hunt via GitGitGadget
2021-02-20 3:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-22 14:15 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-02-22 19:14 ` Andrzej Hunt [this message]
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2021-02-25 6:26 Abhishek Kumar
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