Good catch! An alternative solution (and IMHO better one) would be to move the two lines allocating the mutex and semaphore below the if-block that can return. That way you avoid the memory-leak situation alltogether. Maarten 2011/8/15 Lu Guanqun <guanqun.lu at intel.com>: > Signed-off-by: Lu Guanqun <guanqun.lu at intel.com> > --- > ?src/pulsecore/memblock.c | ? ?2 ++ > ?1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/src/pulsecore/memblock.c b/src/pulsecore/memblock.c > index e34a739..332fcb7 100644 > --- a/src/pulsecore/memblock.c > +++ b/src/pulsecore/memblock.c > @@ -728,6 +728,8 @@ pa_mempool* pa_mempool_new(pa_bool_t shared, size_t size) { > ? ? } > > ? ? if (pa_shm_create_rw(&p->memory, p->n_blocks * p->block_size, shared, 0700) < 0) { > + ? ? ? ?pa_semaphore_free(p->semaphore); > + ? ? ? ?pa_mutex_free(p->mutex); > ? ? ? ? pa_xfree(p); > ? ? ? ? return NULL; > ? ? } > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >