Re: [PATCH 7/7] determine_author_info: stop leaking name/email

2014-06-23 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:33:56AM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > This approach has the added benefit of fixing the case where getenv > uses a static buffer, like POSIX allows. Good point. I knew we could invalidate the pointer if setenv() was called, but I didn't know that another getenv() could

Re: [PATCH 7/7] determine_author_info: stop leaking name/email

2014-06-23 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 05:28:14AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > static void determine_author_info(struct strbuf *author_ident) > > { > > char *name, *email, *date; > > struct ident_split author; > > - struct strbuf date_buf = STRBUF_INIT; > > + struct strbuf name_b

Re: [PATCH 7/7] determine_author_info: stop leaking name/email

2014-06-23 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Eric Sunshine > wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Jeff King wrote: >>> When we get the author name and email either from an >>> existing commit or from the "--author" option, we create a >>> copy

Re: [PATCH 7/7] determine_author_info: stop leaking name/email

2014-06-23 Thread Erik Faye-Lund
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Jeff King wrote: >> When we get the author name and email either from an >> existing commit or from the "--author" option, we create a >> copy of the strings. We cannot just free() these copies, >> since the

Re: [PATCH 7/7] determine_author_info: stop leaking name/email

2014-06-23 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Jeff King wrote: > When we get the author name and email either from an > existing commit or from the "--author" option, we create a > copy of the strings. We cannot just free() these copies, > since the same pointers may also be pointing to getenv() > storage whic