builtin/rebase: do not assign default backend to non-constant field

The `struct rebase_options::default_backend` field is a non-constant
string, but is being assigned a constant via `REBASE_OPTIONS_INIT`.
Fix this by using `xstrdup()` to assign the variable and introduce a new
function `rebase_options_release()` that releases memory held by the
structure, including the newly-allocated variable.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: pks-t

builtin/rebase.c

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ struct rebase_options {
 		.type = REBASE_UNSPECIFIED,	  	\
 		.empty = EMPTY_UNSPECIFIED,	  	\
 		.keep_empty = 1,			\
-		.default_backend = "merge",	  	\
+		.default_backend = xstrdup("merge"),  	\
 		.flags = REBASE_NO_QUIET, 		\
 		.git_am_opts = STRVEC_INIT,		\
 		.exec = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP,		\
@@ -151,6 +151,19 @@ struct rebase_options {
 		.strategy_opts = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP,\
 	}
 
+static void rebase_options_release(struct rebase_options *opts)
+{
+	free(opts->default_backend);
+	free(opts->reflog_action);
+	free(opts->head_name);
+	strvec_clear(&opts->git_am_opts);
+	free(opts->gpg_sign_opt);
+	string_list_clear(&opts->exec, 0);
+	free(opts->strategy);
+	string_list_clear(&opts->strategy_opts, 0);
+	strbuf_release(&opts->git_format_patch_opt);
+}
+
 static struct replay_opts get_replay_opts(const struct rebase_options *opts)
 {
 	struct replay_opts replay = REPLAY_OPTS_INIT;
@@ -796,6 +809,7 @@ static int rebase_config(const char *var, const char *value,
 	}
 
 	if (!strcmp(var, "rebase.backend")) {
+		FREE_AND_NULL(opts->default_backend);
 		return git_config_string(&opts->default_backend, var, value);
 	}
 
@@ -1833,14 +1847,7 @@ int cmd_rebase(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 cleanup:
 	strbuf_release(&buf);
 	strbuf_release(&revisions);
-	free(options.reflog_action);
-	free(options.head_name);
-	strvec_clear(&options.git_am_opts);
-	free(options.gpg_sign_opt);
-	string_list_clear(&options.exec, 0);
-	free(options.strategy);
-	string_list_clear(&options.strategy_opts, 0);
-	strbuf_release(&options.git_format_patch_opt);
+	rebase_options_release(&options);
 	free(squash_onto_name);
 	free(keep_base_onto_name);
 	return !!ret;