On Friday, March 27, 2015, Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> wrote:
> > I observe that filter is going out of scope, but the
> > implementation proposed in this patch produces just a
> > crash instead of any helpful fix.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/entry.c b/entry.c
> > index 1eda8e9..5383001 100644
> > --- a/entry.c
> > +++ b/entry.c
> > @@ -152,8 +152,10 @@ static int write_entry(struct cache_entry *ce,
> > if (filter &&
> > !streaming_write_entry(ce, path, filter,
> > state, to_tempfile,
> > - &fstat_done, &st))
> > + &fstat_done, &st)) {
> > + free_stream_filter(filter);
>
> Aside from the crash you are seeing, this is a bogus fix anyway.
> You're only freeing 'filter' if it was allocated _and_ if
> streaming_write_entry() returned 0. I would guess your intention was
> to free 'filter' regardless of the result of streaming_write_entry().
Unless streaming_write_entry() is freeing the filter for you -- there
is a free_stream_filter() call in close_method_decl() in streaming.c
-- in which case your new free_stream_filter() call would attempt to
free the already-freed filter.
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