From 2139bd0200b2ee51674d8778cd26a9f38220a5b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2023 00:07:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] http-backend.c: fix cmd_main() memory leak, refactor reg{exec,free}() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Fix a memory leak that's been with us ever since 2f4038ab337 (Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport, 2009-10-30). In this case we're not calling regerror() after a failed regexec(), and don't otherwise use "re" afterwards. We can therefore simplify this code by calling regfree() right after the regexec(). An alternative fix would be to add a regfree() to both the "return" and "break" path in this for-loop. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- http-backend.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/http-backend.c b/http-backend.c index 67819d931c..8ab58e55f8 100644 --- a/http-backend.c +++ b/http-backend.c @@ -759,10 +759,14 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv) struct service_cmd *c = &services[i]; regex_t re; regmatch_t out[1]; + int ret; if (regcomp(&re, c->pattern, REG_EXTENDED)) die("Bogus regex in service table: %s", c->pattern); - if (!regexec(&re, dir, 1, out, 0)) { + ret = regexec(&re, dir, 1, out, 0); + regfree(&re); + + if (!ret) { size_t n; if (strcmp(method, c->method)) @@ -774,7 +778,6 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv) dir[out[0].rm_so] = 0; break; } - regfree(&re); } if (!cmd)