transport: fix leak with transport helper URLs
Transport URLs can be prefixed with "foo::", which would tell us that the transport uses a remote helper called "foo". We extract the helper name by `xstrndup()`ing the prefix before the double-colons, but never free that string. Fix this leak by assigning the result to a separate local variable that we can then free upon returning. Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Aug 7, 2024 at 17:32 UTC
448d51d549179bafe47e07e9434210d48fdf55c6
1 file changed
+3
-1
transport.c
+3
-1
index 12cc5b4d96..7c4af9f56f 100644
--- a/transport.c
+++ b/transport.c
@@ -1115,6 +1115,7 @@ static struct transport_vtable builtin_smart_vtable = {
struct transport *transport_get(struct remote *remote, const char *url)
{
const char *helper;
+ char *helper_to_free = NULL;
const char *p;
struct transport *ret = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*ret));
@@ -1139,10 +1140,11 @@ struct transport *transport_get(struct remote *remote, const char *url)
while (is_urlschemechar(p == url, *p))
p++;
if (starts_with(p, "::"))
- helper = xstrndup(url, p - url);
+ helper = helper_to_free = xstrndup(url, p - url);
if (helper) {
transport_helper_init(ret, helper);
+ free(helper_to_free);
} else if (starts_with(url, "rsync:")) {
die(_("git-over-rsync is no longer supported"));
} else if (url_is_local_not_ssh(url) && is_file(url) && is_bundle(url, 1)) {