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Jeff King fbce4fa9ae fsck: free tree buffers after walking unreachable objects
After calling fsck_walk(), a tree object struct may be left in the
parsed state, with the full tree contents available via tree->buffer.
It's the responsibility of the caller to free these when it's done with
the object to avoid having many trees allocated at once.

In a regular "git fsck", we hit fsck_walk() only from fsck_obj(), which
does call free_tree_buffer(). Likewise for "--connectivity-only", we see
most objects via traverse_one_object(), which makes a similar call.

The exception is in mark_unreachable_referents(). When using both
"--connectivity-only" and "--dangling" (the latter of which is the
default), we walk all of the unreachable objects, and there we forget to
free. Most cases would not notice this, because they don't have a lot of
unreachable objects, but you can make a pathological case like this:

  git clone --bare /path/to/linux.git repo.git
  cd repo.git
  rm packed-refs ;# now everything is unreachable!
  git fsck --connectivity-only

That ends up with peak heap usage ~18GB, which is (not coincidentally)
close to the size of all uncompressed trees in the repository. After
this patch, the peak heap is only ~2GB.

A few things to note:

  - it might seem like fsck_walk(), if it is parsing the trees, should
    be responsible for freeing them. But the situation is quite tricky.
    In the non-connectivity mode, after we call fsck_walk() we then
    proceed with fsck_object() which actually does the type-specific
    sanity checks on the object contents. We do pass our own separate
    buffer to fsck_object(), but there's a catch: our earlier call to
    parse_object_buffer() may have attached that buffer to the object
    struct! So by freeing it, we leave the rest of the code with a
    dangling pointer.

    Likewise, the call to fsck_walk() in index-pack is subtle. It
    attaches a buffer to the tree object that must not be freed! And
    so rather than calling free_tree_buffer(), it actually detaches it
    by setting tree->buffer to NULL.

    These cases would _probably_ be fixable by having fsck_walk() free
    the tree buffer only when it was the one who allocated it via
    parse_tree(). But that would still leave the callers responsible for
    freeing other cases, so they wouldn't be simplified. While the
    current semantics for fsck_walk() make it easy to accidentally leak
    in new callers, at least they are simple to explain, and it's not a
    function that's likely to get a lot of new call-sites.

    And in any case, it's probably sensible to fix the leak first with
    this simple patch, and try any more complicated refactoring
    separately.

  - a careful reader may notice that fsck_obj() also frees commit
    buffers, but neither the call in traverse_one_object() nor the one
    touched in this patch does so. And indeed, this is another problem
    for --connectivity-only (and accounts for most of the 2GB heap after
    this patch), but it's one we'll fix in a separate commit.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-22 11:30:06 -07:00
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Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.

Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.

Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.

Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.

See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and Documentation/git-<commandname>.txt for documentation of each command. If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.

CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt (man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is installed).

The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission and Documentation/CodingGuidelines).

Those wishing to help with error message, usage and informational message string translations (localization l10) should see po/README.md (a po file is a Portable Object file that holds the translations).

To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org (not the Git list). The mailing list archives are available at https://lore.kernel.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.

Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.

The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.

The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):

  • random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
  • stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
  • "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
  • "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks