name-hash.c: remove unreferenced directory entries

[thirdparty/git.git] / name-hash.c

diff --git a/name-hash.c b/name-hash.c
index c75fadf33b88689b4b35be5b1ae65d1317deec0d..effe96db0b030ff9626a61345f296424c3641010 100644 (file)
--- a/name-hash.c
+++ b/name-hash.c
@@ -86,15 +86,16 @@ static void add_dir_entry(struct index_state *istate, struct cache_entry *ce)
 static void remove_dir_entry(struct index_state *istate, struct cache_entry *ce)
 {
        /*
-        * Release reference to the directory entry (and parents if 0).
-        *
-        * Note: we do not remove / free the entry because there's no
-        * hash.[ch]::remove_hash and dir->next may point to other entries
-        * that are still valid, so we must not free the memory.
+        * Release reference to the directory entry. If 0, remove and continue
+        * with parent directory.
         */
        struct dir_entry *dir = hash_dir_entry(istate, ce, ce_namelen(ce));
-       while (dir && dir->nr && !(--dir->nr))
-               dir = dir->parent;
+       while (dir && !(--dir->nr)) {
+               struct dir_entry *parent = dir->parent;
+               hashmap_remove(&istate->dir_hash, dir, NULL);
+               free(dir);
+               dir = parent;
+       }
 }
 
 static void hash_index_entry(struct index_state *istate, struct cache_entry *ce)