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Re: [PATCH 0/5] plugging some list-objects-filter leaks

From: Derrick Stolee <hidden>
Date: 2022-09-09 14:20:46

On 9/8/2022 12:52 AM, Jeff King wrote:
The test I sent earlier in [1] fails the linux-leaks CI job, not because
it introduces new leaks, but just because it runs existing leaks in a
test marked as passing-leaks.

Of course we can drop the passing flag, but I figured it would probably
be an easy fix. Famous last words. It turned into quite a rabbit hole of
actual leaks (albeit small and bounded per process) and some
questionable memory ownership semantics.
Reading the patches, you make good arguments about the various trade-
offs in these sticky places. I agree with you in all cases, mostly
because the alternatives would not be any better unless we did a _lot_
of work to rewrite a lot more code than these patches. Even then, the
benefit is unclear.
Here's the series I came up with. I'm cc-ing Stolee as the last person
unfortunate enough to have touched this area. :)
Lucky me!

These patches look good. Thanks!

-Stolee
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