remote: plug memory leak in match_explicit()

The `guess_ref()` returns an allocated buffer of which `make_linked_ref()`
does not take custody (`alloc_ref()` makes a copy), therefore we need to
release the buffer afterwards.

Noticed via Coverity.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 801137c..72b4591 100644 (file)
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -1191,9 +1191,10 @@ static int match_explicit(struct ref *src, struct ref *dst,
                else if (is_null_oid(&matched_src->new_oid))
                        error("unable to delete '%s': remote ref does not exist",
                              dst_value);
-               else if ((dst_guess = guess_ref(dst_value, matched_src)))
+               else if ((dst_guess = guess_ref(dst_value, matched_src))) {
                        matched_dst = make_linked_ref(dst_guess, dst_tail);
-               else
+                       free(dst_guess);
+               } else
                        error("unable to push to unqualified destination: %s\n"
                              "The destination refspec neither matches an "
                              "existing ref on the remote nor\n"