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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2016-06-13 01:39:12 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-06-13 10:33:08 -0700
commit7a7a517a2f6264a893ed47f8daf02cb221aca67c (patch)
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parente46579643d56162299b1756b70d418005351b256 (diff)
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parse_opt_string_list: stop allocating new strings
The parse_opt_string_list callback is basically a thin wrapper to string_list_append() any string options we get. However, it calls: string_list_append(v, xstrdup(arg)); which duplicates the option value. This is wrong for two reasons: 1. If the string list has strdup_strings set, then we are making an extra copy, which is simply leaked. 2. If the string list does not have strdup_strings set, then we pass memory ownership to the string list, but it does not realize this. If we later call string_list_clear(), which can happen if "--no-foo" is passed, then we will leak all of the existing entries. Instead, we should just pass the argument straight to string_list_append, and it can decide whether to copy or not based on its strdup_strings flag. It's possible that some (buggy) caller could be relying on this extra copy (e.g., because it parses some options from an allocated argv array and then frees the array), but it's not likely. For one, we generally only use parse_options on the argv given to us in main(). And two, such a caller is broken anyway, because other option types like OPT_STRING() do not make such a copy. This patch brings us in line with them. Noticed-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'parse-options-cb.c')
-rw-r--r--parse-options-cb.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/parse-options-cb.c b/parse-options-cb.c
index 5ab6ed6b0..4e8290181 100644
--- a/parse-options-cb.c
+++ b/parse-options-cb.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ int parse_opt_string_list(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
if (!arg)
return -1;
- string_list_append(v, xstrdup(arg));
+ string_list_append(v, arg);
return 0;
}