diff-lib: fix leaking diffopts in `do_diff_cache()`

In `do_diff_cache()` we initialize a new `rev_info` and then overwrite its `diffopt` with a user-provided set of options. This can leak memory because `repo_init_revisions()` may end up allocating memory for the `diffopt` itself depending on the configuration. And since that field is overwritten we won't ever free it. Plug the memory leak by releasing the diffopts before we overwrite them. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Patrick Steinhardt committed Nov 5, 2024 at 07:17 UTC 8dd3cb4b45d06959f3344f02b2d45a4ccf8207d8
2 files changed +2
diff-lib.c
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index 6b14b95962..3cf353946f 100644 --- a/diff-lib.c +++ b/diff-lib.c @@ -661,6 +661,7 @@ int do_diff_cache(const struct object_id *tree_oid, struct diff_options *opt) repo_init_revisions(opt->repo, &revs, NULL); copy_pathspec(&revs.prune_data, &opt->pathspec); + diff_free(&revs.diffopt); revs.diffopt = *opt; revs.diffopt.no_free = 1;
t/t7610-mergetool.sh
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index 22b3a85b3e..5c5e79e990 100755 --- a/t/t7610-mergetool.sh +++ b/t/t7610-mergetool.sh @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Testing basic merge tool invocation' GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=main export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME +TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true . ./test-lib.sh # All the mergetool test work by checking out a temporary branch based