From: Brad Roberts <braddr@puremagic.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:55:12 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] fix for memory leak in write-tree.c
X-Git-Tag: v0.99~849
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7223a88ce7795f38f47812ebca4433e7f8b82a30;p=git.git

[PATCH] fix for memory leak in write-tree.c

Fix a memory leak in write-tree.c, not freeing the directory buffer.
---

diff --git a/write-tree.c b/write-tree.c
index b58871c7d..827809dbd 100644
--- a/write-tree.c
+++ b/write-tree.c
@@ -93,10 +93,8 @@ static int write_tree(struct cache_entry **cachep, int maxentries, const char *b
 	i -= 5;
 	memcpy(buffer+i, "tree ", 5);
 
-	buffer += i;
-	offset -= i;
-
-	write_sha1_file(buffer, offset, returnsha1);
+	write_sha1_file(buffer + i, offset - i, returnsha1);
+	free(buffer);
 	return nr;
 }