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The primary goal of this change is to stop leaking init_db_template_dir.
This leak can happen because:
1. git_init_db_config() allocates new memory into init_db_template_dir
without first freeing the existing value.
2. init_db_template_dir might already contain data, either because:
2.1 git_config() can be invoked twice with this callback in a single
process - at least 2 allocations are likely.
2.2 A single git_config() allocation can invoke the callback multiple
times for a given key (see further explanation in the function
docs) - each of those calls will trigger another leak.
The simplest fix for the leak would be to free(init_db_template_dir)
before overwriting it. Instead we choose to convert to fetching
init.templatedir via git_config_get_value() as that is more explicit,
more efficient, and avoids allocations (the returned result is owned by
the config cache, so we aren't responsible for freeing it).
If we remove init_db_template_dir, git_init_db_config() ends up being
responsible only for forwarding core.* config values to
platform_core_config(). However platform_core_config() already ignores
non-core.* config values, so we can safely remove git_init_db_config()
and invoke git_config() directly with platform_core_config() as the
callback.
The platform_core_config forwarding was originally added in:
287853392a (mingw: respect core.hidedotfiles = false in git-init again, 2019-03-11
And I suspect the potential for a leak existed since the original
implementation of git_init_db_config in:
90b45187ba (Add `init.templatedir` configuration variable., 2010-02-17)
LSAN output from t0001:
Direct leak of 73 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x49a859 in realloc /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/llvm-11.0.0.src/build/../projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:164:3
#1 0x9a7276 in xrealloc /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/wrapper.c:126:8
#2 0x9362ad in strbuf_grow /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/strbuf.c:98:2
#3 0x936eaa in strbuf_add /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/strbuf.c:295:2
#4 0x868112 in strbuf_addstr /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/./strbuf.h:304:2
#5 0x86a8ad in expand_user_path /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/path.c:758:2
#6 0x720bb1 in git_config_pathname /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/config.c:1287:10
#7 0x5960e2 in git_init_db_config /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/builtin/init-db.c:161:11
#8 0x7255b8 in configset_iter /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/config.c:1982:7
#9 0x7253fc in repo_config /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/config.c:2311:2
#10 0x725ca7 in git_config /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/config.c:2399:2
#11 0x593e8d in create_default_files /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/builtin/init-db.c:225:2
#12 0x5935c6 in init_db /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/builtin/init-db.c:449:11
#13 0x59588e in cmd_init_db /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/builtin/init-db.c:714:9
#14 0x4cd60d in run_builtin /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:453:11
#15 0x4cb2da in handle_builtin /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:704:3
#16 0x4ccc37 in run_argv /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:771:4
#17 0x4cac29 in cmd_main /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/git.c:902:19
#18 0x69c4de in main /home/ahunt/oss-fuzz/git/common-main.c:52:11
#19 0x7f23552d6349 in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x24349)
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hunt <ajrhunt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>