Merge branch 'ab/free-and-null'

A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.

* ab/free-and-null:
  *.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro
  coccinelle: make use of the "expression" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
  coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
  coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
  coccinelle: add a rule to make "type" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
  git-compat-util: add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper around free(ptr); ptr = NULL

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tree-diff.c b/tree-diff.c
index 467e381724..bd6d65a409 100644
--- a/tree-diff.c
+++ b/tree-diff.c
@@ -141,8 +141,7 @@ static struct combine_diff_path *path_appendnew(struct combine_diff_path *last,
 	/* if last->next is !NULL - it is a pre-allocated memory, we can reuse */
 	p = last->next;
 	if (p && (alloclen > (intptr_t)p->next)) {
-		free(p);
-		p = NULL;
+		FREE_AND_NULL(p);
 	}
 
 	if (!p) {
@@ -559,8 +558,7 @@ struct combine_diff_path *diff_tree_paths(
 	 * (see path_appendnew() for details about why)
 	 */
 	if (p->next) {
-		free(p->next);
-		p->next = NULL;
+		FREE_AND_NULL(p->next);
 	}
 
 	return p;