Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] help: use list_aliases() for alias listing

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:41:58 -0800

Jacob Keller <[email-masked]> writes:

> SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 1453 byte(s) leaked in 37 allocation(s).
>
> This leak occurs because you now copy and store the value of the alias 
> in the util element, but the call of list_aliases() in list_cmd() 
> doesn't clean these up, since its string_list_clear passes 0 to the 
> free_util argument.
>
> The following fixed it for me:
>
> diff --git c/git.c i/git.c
> index 744cb6527e06..aeb099ab1162 100644
> --- c/git.c
> +++ i/git.c
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static int list_cmds(const char *spec)
>          }
>          for (size_t i = 0; i < list.nr; i++)
>                  puts(list.items[i].string);
> -       string_list_clear(&list, 0);
> +       string_list_clear(&list, 1);
>          return 0;
>   }

Thanks. This looks like one of the right things to do.  I checked
all list_*() that are called from the loop in this list_cmds(), and
list_aliases() is the only thing that uses .util member of the
string_list_item instances.

However, we need to be a bit careful with list_cmds_by_config().  It
sorts the list accumulated so far, uses remove_duplicates() on it
without passing free_util=1, so there is also the same kind of leak
there, I suspect, until we adjust the call there.