# HG changeset patch
# User Alex Henrie <alexhenri...@gmail.com>
# Date 1448316746 25200
#      Mon Nov 23 15:12:26 2015 -0700
# Node ID 50c079e1d06b196368da9edeb4ba9c8e9b8cf913
# Parent  8c9484fe1bb22b13e873ef8fcaeeff234e4dabca
Fix memory leak in wcstombsdmp

If a character cannot be represented in the current locale, wcstombs can
set errno to EILSEQ and return -1. In this case, the char buffer is not
returned because it contains garbage, so it needs to be freed.

diff --git a/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/awt/awt_InputMethod.c 
b/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/awt/awt_InputMethod.c
--- a/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/awt/awt_InputMethod.c
+++ b/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/awt/awt_InputMethod.c
@@ -216,18 +216,20 @@ wcstombsdmp(wchar_t *wcs, int len)
 
     mbs = (char *) malloc(n * sizeof(char));
     if (mbs == NULL) {
         THROW_OUT_OF_MEMORY_ERROR();
         return NULL;
     }
 
     /* TODO: check return values... Handle invalid characters properly...  */
-    if (wcstombs(mbs, wcs, n) == (size_t)-1)
+    if (wcstombs(mbs, wcs, n) == (size_t)-1) {
+        free(mbs);
         return NULL;
+    }
 
     return mbs;
 }
 
 /*
  * Returns True if the global reference is still in the list,
  * otherwise False.
  */

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