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 p...@peff.net 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()

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 sunsh...@sunshineco.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Jeff King p...@peff.net 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

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 kusmab...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Eric Sunshine sunsh...@sunshineco.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: When we get the author name and email either from an existing commit or

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_buf =

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