[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fftools/cmdutils: Add av_freep() to avoid memory leak

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 07:41:49PM +0000, Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> Add av_freep() to free new_elem to avoid memory leak.
> 
> Fixes: 2d0bfbd0fa ("fftools/cmdutils: Use av_dynarray_add_nofree()")
> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiashengjiangcool at gmail.com>
> ---
>  fftools/cmdutils.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fftools/cmdutils.c b/fftools/cmdutils.c
> index e442935cae..5c8d09f87a 100644
> --- a/fftools/cmdutils.c
> +++ b/fftools/cmdutils.c
> @@ -1471,9 +1471,13 @@ void *allocate_array_elem(void *ptr, size_t elem_size, int *nb_elems)
>  {
>      void *new_elem;
>  
> -    if (!(new_elem = av_mallocz(elem_size)) ||
> -        av_dynarray_add_nofree(ptr, nb_elems, new_elem) < 0)
> +    new_elem = av_mallocz(elem_size);
> +    if (!new_elem)
>          return NULL;

> +    if (av_dynarray_add_nofree(ptr, nb_elems, new_elem) < 0) {
> +        av_freep(&new_elem);
> +        return NULL;
> +    }
>      return new_elem;

teh return NULL is not needed as av_freep sets new_elem to NULL

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