From: Mikhail <mp39590@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: double free in checkout running as root
To: Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>
Cc: Game of Trees <gameoftrees@openbsd.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:39:44 +0300

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 10:49:47AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
> ok, running as root is bad.  I get that.
> I shouldn't be doing this.  I get that, too
> Came up with a better way to do things.  Mission accomplished.
> 
> But the error message doesn't look like I'd expect for "you are
> being an idiot".
> 
> /root # got checkout /got/ibs.git
> got(6695) in free(): bogus pointer (double free?) 0x7f7ffffee850
> Abort trap
> 
> Same command run as non-root user works fine.
> 
> is this a problem, or just a way to say, "maybe you need to
> reevaluate your life choices"?
> 
> Nick.Secopn
> 

For me it crashes on 0.74 with the same message, on latest main it works
fine.