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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-03-07 13:48:40 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-03-09 01:03:45 -0800
commit1caeacc1f2973cecf7919a141adc4759acae94d0 (patch)
tree0f06940126d686e7270c3f21c2dfcc9d1357fcc0 /unpack-trees.c
parent34110cd4e394e3f92c01a4709689b384c34645d8 (diff)
downloadgit-1caeacc1f2973cecf7919a141adc4759acae94d0.tar.gz
unpack_trees(): minor memory leak fix in unused destination index
This adds a "discard_index(&o->result)" to the failure path, to reclaim memory from an in-core index we built but ended up not using. The *big* memory leak comes from the fact that we leak the cache_entry things left and right. That's a very traditional and deliberate leak: because we used to build up the cache entries by just mapping them directly in from the index file (and we emulate that in modern times by allocating them from one big array), we can't actually free them one-by-one. So doing the "discard_index()" will free the hash tables etc, which is good, and it will free the "istate->alloc" but that is never set on the result because we don't get the result from the index read. So we don't actually free the individual cache entries themselves that got created from the trees. That's not something new, btw. We never did. But some day we should just add a flag to the cache_entry() that it's a "free one by one" kind, and then we could/should do it. In the meantime, this one-liner will fix *some* of the memory leaks, but not that old traditional one. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c
index 0cdf19817d..da68557b17 100644
--- a/unpack-trees.c
+++ b/unpack-trees.c
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ static int unpack_callback(int n, unsigned long mask, unsigned long dirmask, str
static int unpack_failed(struct unpack_trees_options *o, const char *message)
{
+ discard_index(&o->result);
if (!o->gently) {
if (message)
return error(message);