Subject: [PATCH v4] alloc: fix dangling pointer in alloc_state cleanup

From: "ノウラ | Flare via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:17:07 +0000

From: =?UTF-8?q?=E3=83=8E=E3=82=A6=E3=83=A9=20=7C=20Flare?=
 <[email-masked]>

All callers of clear_alloc_state() immediately free what they
cleared, so currently it does not hurt anybody that the
alloc_state is left in an unreusable state, but it is an
error-prone API. Replace it with a new function that clears but
in addition frees the structure, as well as NULLing the pointer
that points at it and adjust existing callers.

While at it, rename allocate_alloc_state() and name the new
function alloc_state_free_and_null(), to follow more closely the
function naming convention specified in the CodingGuidelines
(namely, functions about S are named with S_ prefix and then
verb).

Signed-off-by: ノウラ | Flare <[email-masked]>
---
    alloc: fix dangling pointer in alloc_state cleanup
    
    cc: Torsten Bögershausen [email-masked] cc: Jeff King [email-masked]

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2040%2Fnouraellm%2Ffix-dangling-pointer-v4
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2040/nouraellm/fix-dangling-pointer-v4
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2040

Range-diff vs v3:

 1:  c521b44adb ! 1:  82d228661d alloc: fix dangling pointer in alloc_state cleanup
     @@ alloc.c: struct alloc_state {
      -void clear_alloc_state(struct alloc_state *s)
      +void alloc_state_free_and_null(struct alloc_state **s_)
       {
     -+	struct alloc_state *s = *s_;
     ++	struct alloc_state *s;
      +
      +	if (!s_ || !*s_) return;
     ++
     ++	s = *s_;
      +
       	while (s->slab_nr > 0) {
       		s->slab_nr--;

 alloc.c  | 11 +++++++++--
 alloc.h  |  4 ++--
 object.c | 26 ++++++++++----------------
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/alloc.c b/alloc.c
index 377e80f5dd..1483697ca8 100644
--- a/alloc.c
+++ b/alloc.c
@@ -36,19 +36,26 @@ struct alloc_state {
 	int slab_nr, slab_alloc;
 };
 
-struct alloc_state *allocate_alloc_state(void)
+struct alloc_state *alloc_state_alloc(void)
 {
 	return xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct alloc_state));
 }
 
-void clear_alloc_state(struct alloc_state *s)
+void alloc_state_free_and_null(struct alloc_state **s_)
 {
+	struct alloc_state *s;
+
+	if (!s_ || !*s_) return;
+
+	s = *s_;
+
 	while (s->slab_nr > 0) {
 		s->slab_nr--;
 		free(s->slabs[s->slab_nr]);
 	}
 
 	FREE_AND_NULL(s->slabs);
+	FREE_AND_NULL(*s_);
 }
 
 static inline void *alloc_node(struct alloc_state *s, size_t node_size)
diff --git a/alloc.h b/alloc.h
index 3f4a0ad310..87a47a9709 100644
--- a/alloc.h
+++ b/alloc.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ void *alloc_commit_node(struct repository *r);
 void *alloc_tag_node(struct repository *r);
 void *alloc_object_node(struct repository *r);
 
-struct alloc_state *allocate_alloc_state(void);
-void clear_alloc_state(struct alloc_state *s);
+struct alloc_state *alloc_state_alloc(void);
+void alloc_state_free_and_null(struct alloc_state **s_);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/object.c b/object.c
index c1553ee433..986114a6db 100644
--- a/object.c
+++ b/object.c
@@ -517,12 +517,11 @@ struct parsed_object_pool *parsed_object_pool_new(struct repository *repo)
 	memset(o, 0, sizeof(*o));
 
 	o->repo = repo;
-	o->blob_state = allocate_alloc_state();
-	o->tree_state = allocate_alloc_state();
-	o->commit_state = allocate_alloc_state();
-	o->tag_state = allocate_alloc_state();
-	o->object_state = allocate_alloc_state();
-
+	o->blob_state = alloc_state_alloc();
+	o->tree_state = alloc_state_alloc();
+	o->commit_state = alloc_state_alloc();
+	o->tag_state = alloc_state_alloc();
+	o->object_state = alloc_state_alloc();
 	o->is_shallow = -1;
 	CALLOC_ARRAY(o->shallow_stat, 1);
 
@@ -573,16 +572,11 @@ void parsed_object_pool_clear(struct parsed_object_pool *o)
 	o->buffer_slab = NULL;
 
 	parsed_object_pool_reset_commit_grafts(o);
-	clear_alloc_state(o->blob_state);
-	clear_alloc_state(o->tree_state);
-	clear_alloc_state(o->commit_state);
-	clear_alloc_state(o->tag_state);
-	clear_alloc_state(o->object_state);
+	alloc_state_free_and_null(&o->blob_state);
+	alloc_state_free_and_null(&o->tree_state);
+	alloc_state_free_and_null(&o->commit_state);
+	alloc_state_free_and_null(&o->tag_state);
+	alloc_state_free_and_null(&o->object_state);
 	stat_validity_clear(o->shallow_stat);
-	FREE_AND_NULL(o->blob_state);
-	FREE_AND_NULL(o->tree_state);
-	FREE_AND_NULL(o->commit_state);
-	FREE_AND_NULL(o->tag_state);
-	FREE_AND_NULL(o->object_state);
 	FREE_AND_NULL(o->shallow_stat);
 }

base-commit: f814da676ae46aac5be0a98b99373a76dee6cedb
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