Subject: [PATCH] revision: fix memory leak in prepare_show_merge()

From: "Lidong Yan via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 03:08:56 +0000

From: Lidong Yan <[email-masked]>

In revision.c:prepare_show_merge(), we allocated an array in prune
but forget to free it. Since parse_pathspec is not responsible to
free prune, we should add `free(prune)` in the end of prepare_show_merge().

Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <[email-masked]>
---
    revision: fix memory leak in prepare_show_merge()
    
    In revision.c:prepare_show_merge(), we allocated an array in prune but
    forget to free it. Since parse_pathspec is not responsible to free
    prune, we should add free(prune) in the end of prepare_show_merge().

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1989%2Fbrandb97%2Ffix-revision-leak-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1989/brandb97/fix-revision-leak-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1989

 revision.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 2c36a9c179e..afee1111961 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -2060,6 +2060,7 @@ static void prepare_show_merge(struct rev_info *revs)
 	parse_pathspec(&revs->prune_data, PATHSPEC_ALL_MAGIC & ~PATHSPEC_LITERAL,
 		       PATHSPEC_PREFER_FULL | PATHSPEC_LITERAL_PATH, "", prune);
 	revs->limited = 1;
+	free(prune);
 }
 
 static int dotdot_missing(const char *arg, char *dotdot,

base-commit: 7014b55638da979331baf8dc31c4e1d697cf2d67
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