Subject: [PATCH/RFC 3/3] read-tree: stop leaking tree objects

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 22:33:44 -0500

The underlying problem is that the fill_tree_descriptor()
API is easy to misuse, and this patch does not fix that.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
---
 unpack-trees.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c
index 8cf0da3..f561d88 100644
--- a/unpack-trees.c
+++ b/unpack-trees.c
@@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ static int traverse_trees_recursive(int n, unsigned long dirmask, unsigned long
 {
 	int i, ret, bottom;
 	struct tree_desc t[MAX_UNPACK_TREES];
+	void *buf[MAX_UNPACK_TREES];
 	struct traverse_info newinfo;
 	struct name_entry *p;
 
@@ -346,12 +347,16 @@ static int traverse_trees_recursive(int n, unsigned long dirmask, unsigned long
 		const unsigned char *sha1 = NULL;
 		if (dirmask & 1)
 			sha1 = names[i].sha1;
-		fill_tree_descriptor(t+i, sha1);
+		buf[i] = fill_tree_descriptor(t+i, sha1);
 	}
 
 	bottom = switch_cache_bottom(&newinfo);
 	ret = traverse_trees(n, t, &newinfo);
 	restore_cache_bottom(&newinfo, bottom);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+		free(buf[i]);
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
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