record_author_date(): fix memory leak on malformed commit

If we hit the end-of-header without finding an "author"
line, we just return from the function. We should jump to
the fail_exit path to clean up the buffer that we may have
allocated.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index b6ffd623c..4ff8c66f9 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ static void record_author_date(struct author_date_slab *author_date,
 		line_end = strchrnul(buf, '\n');
 		if (!skip_prefix(buf, "author ", &ident_line)) {
 			if (!line_end[0] || line_end[1] == '\n')
-				return; /* end of header */
+				goto fail_exit; /* end of header */
 			continue;
 		}
 		if (split_ident_line(&ident,