Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] remote.c: don't leak the base branch name in format_tracking_info

From: Stefan Beller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:14:33 +0200

On 10.08.2014 15:57, Stefan Beller wrote:
> Found by scan.coverity.com (Id: 1127809)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  remote.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
> index 3d6c86a..2c1458f 100644
> --- a/remote.c
> +++ b/remote.c
> @@ -1983,6 +1983,7 @@ int format_tracking_info(struct branch *branch, struct strbuf *sb)
>  			strbuf_addf(sb,
>  				_("  (use \"git pull\" to merge the remote branch into yours)\n"));
>  	}
> +	free(base);
>  	return 1;
>  }
>  
> 

Upon testing this one again, I get a warning
remote.c: In function ‘format_tracking_info’:
remote.c:1986:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘free’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
  free(base);
  ^
In file included from git-compat-util.h:103:0,
                 from cache.h:4,
                 from remote.c:1:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:483:13: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘const char *’
 extern void free (void *__ptr) __THROW;
             ^

Please ignore this patch.