From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:19:50 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Issue #17051: Fix a memory leak in os.path.isdir() on Windows. Patch by Robert Xiao.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.4rc1~194
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=46f5b35bc0d680501629f75a86e40ee4b5798ed7;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #17051: Fix a memory leak in os.path.isdir() on Windows. Patch by Robert Xiao.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index cd1667022287..31c4a8a6c824 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #17051: Fix a memory leak in os.path.isdir() on Windows. Patch by
+  Robert Xiao.
+
 - Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
   interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
 
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index d2742a0ee15d..776c7c6fb661 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -4229,6 +4229,7 @@ posix__isdir(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
         return NULL;
 
     attributes = GetFileAttributesA(path);
+    PyMem_Free(path);
     if (attributes == INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES)
         Py_RETURN_FALSE;