[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] examples: Add av_freep to avoid potential memory leak

Jiasheng Jiang jiashengjiangcool at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 02:28:48 EEST 2025


Add av_freep() to free avio_ctx_buffer if avio_alloc_context fails
to avoid potential memory leak.

Fixes: 5fc4dea39c ("examples: add avio_reading.c example")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiashengjiangcool at gmail.com>
---
 doc/examples/avio_read_callback.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/doc/examples/avio_read_callback.c b/doc/examples/avio_read_callback.c
index dffc061d9f..0a299b4c73 100644
--- a/doc/examples/avio_read_callback.c
+++ b/doc/examples/avio_read_callback.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     avio_ctx = avio_alloc_context(avio_ctx_buffer, avio_ctx_buffer_size,
                                   0, &bd, &read_packet, NULL, NULL);
     if (!avio_ctx) {
+        av_freep(&avio_ctx_buffer);
         ret = AVERROR(ENOMEM);
         goto end;
     }
-- 
2.25.1



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