clear parsed flag when we free tree buffers
Many code paths will free a tree object's buffer and set it
to NULL after finishing with it in order to keep memory
usage down during a traversal. However, out of 8 sites that
do this, only one actually unsets the "parsed" flag back.
Those sites that don't are setting a trap for later users of
the tree object; even after calling parse_tree, the buffer
will remain NULL, causing potential segfaults.
It is not known whether this is triggerable in the current
code. Most commands do not do an in-memory traversal
followed by actually using the objects again. However, it
does not hurt to be safe for future callers.
In most cases, we can abstract this out to a
"free_tree_buffer" helper. However, there are two
exceptions:
1. The fsck code relies on the parsed flag to know that we
were able to parse the object at one point. We can
switch this to using a flag in the "flags" field.
2. The index-pack code sets the buffer to NULL but does
not free it (it is freed by a caller). We should still
unset the parsed flag here, but we cannot use our
helper, as we do not want to free the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/builtin/index-pack.c b/builtin/index-pack.c
index 79dfe47..20cf284 100644
--- a/builtin/index-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/index-pack.c
@@ -765,6 +765,7 @@
if (obj->type == OBJ_TREE) {
struct tree *item = (struct tree *) obj;
item->buffer = NULL;
+ obj->parsed = 0;
}
if (obj->type == OBJ_COMMIT) {
struct commit *commit = (struct commit *) obj;
