# Re: \[PATCH 02/11\] clone: fix memory leak in copy\_ref() call

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2022-06-30 22:03:39 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2022/06/7951328
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2022/06/7951328/t.md

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [ref] writes:

> Fix a memory leak added in 0ec4b1650cc (clone: fix ref selection in
> --single-branch --branch=xxx, 2012-06-22), we need to free_refs() the
> result of copy_ref().

remote_head could be the result of guess_remote_head(), instead of
copy_ref(), and in either case, once we are done with it, we need to
and can safely free it.

> diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
> index 89a91b00177..c43c85dad07 100644
> --- a/builtin/clone.c
> +++ b/builtin/clone.c
> @@ -494,6 +494,7 @@ static struct ref *wanted_peer_refs(const struct ref *refs,
>  			/* if --branch=tag, pull the requested tag explicitly */
>  			get_fetch_map(remote_head, tag_refspec, &tail, 0);
>  		}
> +		free_refs(remote_head);

Looks good.

>  	} else {
>  		int i;
>  		for (i = 0; i < refspec->nr; i++)
```