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Commit 8286296b authored by Andrzej Hunt's avatar Andrzej Hunt Committed by Junio C Hamano
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parse-options: don't leak alias help messages


preprocess_options() allocates new strings for help messages for
OPTION_ALIAS. Therefore we also need to clean those help messages up
when freeing the returned options.

First introduced in:
  7c280589 (parse-options: teach "git cmd -h" to show alias as alias, 2020-03-16)

The preprocessed options themselves no longer contain any indication
that a given option is/was an alias: the easiest and fastest way to
figure it out is to look back at the original options. Alternatively we
could iterate over the alias_groups list - but that would require nested
looping and is likely to be a (little) less efficient.

As far as I can tell, parse_options() is only ever used once per
command, and the help messages are small - hence this leak has very
little impact.

This leak was found while running t0001. LSAN output can be found below:

Direct leak of 65 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
    #0 0x49a859 in realloc /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/llvm-11.0.0.src/build/../projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:164:3
    #1 0x9aae36 in xrealloc /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/wrapper.c:126:8
    #2 0x939d8d in strbuf_grow /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/strbuf.c:98:2
    #3 0x93b936 in strbuf_vaddf /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/strbuf.c:392:3
    #4 0x93b7ff in strbuf_addf /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/strbuf.c:333:2
    #5 0x86747e in preprocess_options /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/parse-options.c:666:3
    #6 0x866ed2 in parse_options /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/parse-options.c:847:17
    #7 0x51c4a7 in cmd_clone /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/builtin/clone.c:989:9
    #8 0x4cd60d in run_builtin /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:453:11
    #9 0x4cb2da in handle_builtin /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:704:3
    #10 0x4ccc37 in run_argv /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:771:4
    #11 0x4cac29 in cmd_main /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:902:19
    #12 0x69c9fe in main /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/common-main.c:52:11
    #13 0x7fdac42d4349 in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x24349)

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrzej Hunt <ajrhunt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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