prefer mkpathdup to mkpath in assignments

As with the previous commit to git_path, assigning the
result of mkpath is suspicious, since it is not clear
whether we will still depend on the value after it may have
been overwritten by subsequent calls. This patch converts
low-hanging fruit to use mkpathdup instead of mkpath (with
the downside that we must remember to free the result).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: peff

builtin/repack.c

@@ -285,27 +285,28 @@ int cmd_repack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	failed = 0;
 	for_each_string_list_item(item, &names) {
 		for (ext = 0; ext < ARRAY_SIZE(exts); ext++) {
-			const char *fname_old;
-			char *fname;
+			char *fname, *fname_old;
 			fname = mkpathdup("%s/pack-%s%s", packdir,
 						item->string, exts[ext].name);
 			if (!file_exists(fname)) {
 				free(fname);
 				continue;
 			}
 
-			fname_old = mkpath("%s/old-%s%s", packdir,
+			fname_old = mkpathdup("%s/old-%s%s", packdir,
 						item->string, exts[ext].name);
 			if (file_exists(fname_old))
 				if (unlink(fname_old))
 					failed = 1;
 
 			if (!failed && rename(fname, fname_old)) {
 				free(fname);
+				free(fname_old);
 				failed = 1;
 				break;
 			} else {
 				string_list_append(&rollback, fname);
+				free(fname_old);
 			}
 		}
 		if (failed)
@@ -314,13 +315,13 @@ int cmd_repack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (failed) {
 		struct string_list rollback_failure = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
 		for_each_string_list_item(item, &rollback) {
-			const char *fname_old;
-			char *fname;
+			char *fname, *fname_old;
 			fname = mkpathdup("%s/%s", packdir, item->string);
-			fname_old = mkpath("%s/old-%s", packdir, item->string);
+			fname_old = mkpathdup("%s/old-%s", packdir, item->string);
 			if (rename(fname_old, fname))
 				string_list_append(&rollback_failure, fname);
 			free(fname);
+			free(fname_old);
 		}
 
 		if (rollback_failure.nr) {
@@ -368,13 +369,14 @@ int cmd_repack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	/* Remove the "old-" files */
 	for_each_string_list_item(item, &names) {
 		for (ext = 0; ext < ARRAY_SIZE(exts); ext++) {
-			const char *fname;
-			fname = mkpath("%s/old-%s%s",
-					packdir,
-					item->string,
-					exts[ext].name);
+			char *fname;
+			fname = mkpathdup("%s/old-%s%s",
+					  packdir,
+					  item->string,
+					  exts[ext].name);
 			if (remove_path(fname))
 				warning(_("removing '%s' failed"), fname);
+			free(fname);
 		}
 	}
 

refs.c

@@ -3380,7 +3380,7 @@ static int commit_ref_update(struct ref_lock *lock,
 int create_symref(const char *ref_target, const char *refs_heads_master,
 		  const char *logmsg)
 {
-	const char *lockpath;
+	char *lockpath = NULL;
 	char ref[1000];
 	int fd, len, written;
 	char *git_HEAD = git_pathdup("%s", ref_target);
@@ -3407,7 +3407,7 @@ int create_symref(const char *ref_target, const char *refs_heads_master,
 		error("refname too long: %s", refs_heads_master);
 		goto error_free_return;
 	}
-	lockpath = mkpath("%s.lock", git_HEAD);
+	lockpath = mkpathdup("%s.lock", git_HEAD);
 	fd = open(lockpath, O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_WRONLY, 0666);
 	if (fd < 0) {
 		error("Unable to open %s for writing", lockpath);
@@ -3427,9 +3427,11 @@ int create_symref(const char *ref_target, const char *refs_heads_master,
 	error_unlink_return:
 		unlink_or_warn(lockpath);
 	error_free_return:
+		free(lockpath);
 		free(git_HEAD);
 		return -1;
 	}
+	free(lockpath);
 
 #ifndef NO_SYMLINK_HEAD
 	done: