Re: [PATCH] pkt-line: re-'static'-ify buffer in packet_write_fmt_1()

On 28 August 2017 at 01:23, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 10:04:55PM +0200, Lars Schneider wrote:

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I did run all tests under valgrind using "make valgrind" and I found
the following files with potential issues:

cat valgrind.out | perl -nE 'say /^==.+\((.+)\:.+\)$/' | sort | uniq -c
7102
   2 clone.c
  33 common-main.c
   6 connect.c
  64 git.c
   4 ls-remote.c
 126 run-command.c
  12 transport.c
   7 worktree.c

I'm not sure where valgrind.out comes from. The individual
test-results/*.out files may have valgrind output, but I don't think
they usually contain leak output.

Doing "valgrind ./git-upload-pack . </dev/null >/dev/null" mentions
leaked memory but not the locations. Adding --leak-check=full shows that
most of it comes from format_packet().

And applying Martin's patch drops the "definitely lost" category down to
0 bytes (there's still 550k in "still reachable", but those are in the
"exit will free them for us" category).

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No mention of "pkt-line.c". Did you run Git with valgrind on one of
your repositories to find it?

I'm curious, too. I don't think the valgrind setup in our test suite is
great for finding leaks right now.

Sorry for being brief. I've patched t/valgrind/valgrind.sh to say
"--leak-check=yes". Then I run "./t0000 --valgrind", simply because
running the complete suite gives more reports than I could possibly
process.

Then I check the first few leaks, verify that they're "ok" and add
them to a suppressions-list. Lather, rinse, repeat. A couple of very
targeted and well-motivated suppressions in git.git could perhaps be
motivated, but there are many many reported leaks. My suppressions-list
is getting gross.

I started with t0000 and t0001 because I figure, once I have those basic
suppressions in place (or leaks fixed), I can run some other more
interesting tests. Of course, the concept of "this leak is ok" is a bit
subjective. For example, we might do "return !!create_object(...);"
(function name invented on the fly), which is a leak, and unreachable.
But if this is only done once in builtin/foo.c and the object created is
small, then this could be deemed "ok", since in practice this leak will
never bring anyone over the cliff. If clean-ups in such code would not
just be code churn, then I can of course adjust my definition of "ok"
accordingly.

This is not an attempt to find and fix a huge number of leaks, it's more
to have a good reason to go through call-stacks, convince myself I know
what the code wants to do and how it does it.

Looking at only "unreachable" leaks seems like it should be an
improvement for finding the interesting cases. I'll have less time for
Git this week, but can try it out as time permits.

Thanks for your feedback, both of you.

Martin