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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] environment: use alloc_permanent() for computed git_dir and co
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 03:39:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101002083958.GG29638@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101002082752.GA29638@burratino>

The in-core variables to match $GIT_DIR, $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, etc
come from three sources:

 a) environment variables [getenv("GIT_INDEX_FILE")]
 b) computation [git_pathdup("objects")]
 c) static strings [".git"]

Only in case (b) are they malloc()'d; even in that case, it
would not make sense to free the values until program termination,
when _exit() takes care of freeing all memory already.

So mark the allocations in case (b) as permanent so no one wastes
time trying to fix the leak.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
---
 environment.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index de5581f..9bd18c7 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -89,23 +89,23 @@ static void setup_git_env(void)
 	git_dir = getenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
 	if (!git_dir) {
 		git_dir = read_gitfile_gently(DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
-		git_dir = git_dir ? xstrdup(git_dir) : NULL;
+		git_dir = git_dir ? strdup_permanent(git_dir) : NULL;
 	}
 	if (!git_dir)
 		git_dir = DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT;
 	git_object_dir = getenv(DB_ENVIRONMENT);
 	if (!git_object_dir) {
-		git_object_dir = xmalloc(strlen(git_dir) + 9);
+		git_object_dir = alloc_permanent(strlen(git_dir) + 9);
 		sprintf(git_object_dir, "%s/objects", git_dir);
 	}
 	git_index_file = getenv(INDEX_ENVIRONMENT);
 	if (!git_index_file) {
-		git_index_file = xmalloc(strlen(git_dir) + 7);
+		git_index_file = alloc_permanent(strlen(git_dir) + 7);
 		sprintf(git_index_file, "%s/index", git_dir);
 	}
 	git_graft_file = getenv(GRAFT_ENVIRONMENT);
 	if (!git_graft_file)
-		git_graft_file = git_pathdup("info/grafts");
+		git_graft_file = git_pathdup_permanent("info/grafts");
 	if (getenv(NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS_ENVIRONMENT))
 		read_replace_refs = 0;
 }
-- 
1.7.2.3

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-02  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-09  9:48 [PATCH] memory leak reported by valgrind Ivan Kanis
2010-08-09 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-09 20:19   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-08-09 20:29     ` Alex Riesen
2010-08-10  3:26   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-10  3:28     ` [PATCH/RFC 1/3] core: Stop leaking ondisk_cache_entrys Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-10  3:32     ` [PATCH/RFC 2/3] write-tree: Avoid leak when index refers to an invalid object Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-10  3:33     ` [PATCH/RFC 3/3] read-tree: stop leaking tree objects Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:27     ` [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Re: [PATCH] memory leak reported by valgrind Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:31       ` [PATCH 1/7] init: plug tiny one-time memory leak Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-03 23:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04  4:34           ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:32       ` [PATCH 2/7] lockfile: introduce alloc_lock_file() to avoid valgrind noise Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 16:30         ` Andreas Ericsson
2010-10-02 16:43           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-06 20:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-06 20:21           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-06 21:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-06 22:17               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:35       ` [PATCH 3/7] environment.c: remove unused variable Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:36       ` [PATCH 4/7] setup: make sure git dir path is in a permanent buffer Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04  9:25         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-02  8:38       ` [PATCH 5/7] Introduce malloc/strdup/pathdup variants for permanent allocations Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:39       ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-02  8:41       ` [PATCH 7/7] commit-tree: free commit message before exiting Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 18:14         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-02 18:26           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 20:12             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-02 20:50               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04  0:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04  4:18           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04  7:55             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04  7:56               ` Jonathan Nieder

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