builtin/merge: release output buffer after performing merge

The `obuf` member of `struct merge_options` is used to buffer output in
some cases. In order to not discard its allocated memory we only release
its contents in `merge_finalize()` when we're not currently recursing
into a subtree.

This results in some situations where we seemingly do not release the
buffer reliably. We thus have calls to `strbuf_release()` for this
buffer scattered across the codebase. But we're missing one callsite in
git-merge(1), which causes a memory leak.

We should ideally refactor this interface so that callers don't have to
know about any such internals. But for now, paper over the issue by
adding one more `strbuf_release()` call.

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

Author: pks-t

builtin/merge.c

@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ static int try_merge_strategy(const char *strategy, struct commit_list *common,
 			clean = merge_recursive(&o, head, remoteheads->item,
 						reversed, &result);
 		free_commit_list(reversed);
+		strbuf_release(&o.obuf);
 
 		if (clean < 0) {
 			rollback_lock_file(&lock);

t/t6424-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 test_description="merges with unrelated index changes"
 
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 # Testcase for some simple merges