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Coverity is a tool to analyze code statically, trying to find common (or
not so common) problems before they occur in production.
Coverity offers its services to Open Source software, and just like
upstream Git, Git for Windows applied and was granted the use.
While Coverity reports a lot of false positives due to Git's (ab-)use of
the FLEX_ARRAY feature (where it declares a 0-byte or 1-byte array at the
end of a struct, and then allocates a variable-length data structure
holding a variable-length string at the end, so that the struct as well as
the string can be released with a single free()), there were a few issues
reported that are true positives, and not all of them were resource leaks
in builtins (for which it is considered kind of okay to not release memory
just before exit() is called anyway).
This topic branch tries to address a couple of those issues.
Note: there are a couple more issues left, either because they are tricky
to resolve (in some cases, the custody of occasionally-allocated memory is
very unclear) or because it is unclear whether they are false positives
(due to the hard-to-reason-about nature of the code). It's a start,
though.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
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