checkout: fix memory leak

This change addresses part of the NEEDSWORK comment above the code,
therefore the comment needs to be adjusted, too.

Discovered via Coverity.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index bfa5419f335dc1db98059869de24f152cffb9aa6..5faea3a05fa620e490a71793a474e0284a9043bb 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -235,14 +235,14 @@ static int checkout_merged(int pos, const struct checkout *state)
        /*
         * NEEDSWORK:
         * There is absolutely no reason to write this as a blob object
-        * and create a phony cache entry just to leak.  This hack is
-        * primarily to get to the write_entry() machinery that massages
-        * the contents to work-tree format and writes out which only
-        * allows it for a cache entry.  The code in write_entry() needs
-        * to be refactored to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode>
-        * instead of a cache entry.  Such a refactoring would help
-        * merge_recursive as well (it also writes the merge result to the
-        * object database even when it may contain conflicts).
+        * and create a phony cache entry.  This hack is primarily to get
+        * to the write_entry() machinery that massages the contents to
+        * work-tree format and writes out which only allows it for a
+        * cache entry.  The code in write_entry() needs to be refactored
+        * to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode> instead of a cache
+        * entry.  Such a refactoring would help merge_recursive as well
+        * (it also writes the merge result to the object database even
+        * when it may contain conflicts).
         */
        if (write_sha1_file(result_buf.ptr, result_buf.size,
                            blob_type, oid.hash))
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ static int checkout_merged(int pos, const struct checkout *state)
        if (!ce)
                die(_("make_cache_entry failed for path '%s'"), path);
        status = checkout_entry(ce, state, NULL);
+       free(ce);
        return status;
 }