[PATCH 1/1] ui-log: fix data corruption

[list at eworm.de (Christian Hesse)]

John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> on Sun, 2016/10/09 12:26:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 11:21:23PM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason at zx2c4.com> on Fri, 2016/10/07 21:43:  
> > > Does this ever get freed, though?  
> > 
> > I ran cgit in valgrind with this patch applied. No changes in what is
> > lost - so looks like this is freed later on.  
> 
> It isn't lost because there's a global reference to it via the commit
> cache, but valgrind's "still reachable" statistic definitely grows as a
> result of this patch.

Ups, missed that.

> I don't think this is the cause of the underlying problem Sylvain
> reported.  That's more likely to be the use of
> get_cached_commit_buffer() in cgit_parse_commit().  Shouldn't that be
> get_commit_buffer(), which uses the cached buffer if it's available?

I have to admit that I am not very familiar with the caching system. :-p

Just replacing that function has the desired effect, though. Calling
cgit_print_branches() after cgit_print_log() works without crash.
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