merge: fix leak with merge.defaultToUpstream By default the setting 'merge.defaultToUpstream' for git-merge(1) is set to 'true', which means when `git merge` is invoked with no arguments it merges the upstream branch configured for the current branch. With this configuration set to 'true', setup_with_upstream() is called. That function allocates an array of arguments and hands it back to cmd_merge() via its `argv` parameter. This array is never freed, so cmd_merge() leaks it on every invocation. Track the allocated array in a separate variable and free it at the end. The leak has been present since 93e535a5b7 (merge: merge with the default upstream branch without argument, 2011-03-24). Although the leak sanitizer was enabled for tests in fc1ddf42af (t: remove TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK annotations, 2024-11-21), it went unnoticed because no test calls `git merge` without arguments, exercising the default-to-upstream path. Add such a test in t7600, which fails under the leak sanitizer without this fix. Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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