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    clear parsed flag when we free tree buffers · 6e454b9a
    Jeff King authored
    Many code paths will free a tree object's buffer and set it
    to NULL after finishing with it in order to keep memory
    usage down during a traversal. However, out of 8 sites that
    do this, only one actually unsets the "parsed" flag back.
    Those sites that don't are setting a trap for later users of
    the tree object; even after calling parse_tree, the buffer
    will remain NULL, causing potential segfaults.
    
    It is not known whether this is triggerable in the current
    code. Most commands do not do an in-memory traversal
    followed by actually using the objects again. However, it
    does not hurt to be safe for future callers.
    
    In most cases, we can abstract this out to a
    "free_tree_buffer" helper. However, there are two
    exceptions:
    
      1. The fsck code relies on the parsed flag to know that we
         were able to parse the object at one point. We can
         switch this to using a flag in the "flags" field.
    
      2. The index-pack code sets the buffer to NULL but does
         not free it (i...
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