From 07ba551974e4232950f6f79ac3d8403285919a16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Marshall <jmarshall@never.you.mind>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 19:27:04 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] [loadfile] free over-allocated memory from growing buffer

---
 xbmc/utils/FileUtils.cpp | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xbmc/utils/FileUtils.cpp b/xbmc/utils/FileUtils.cpp
index 61dd4c6979d69..948ba8fed3967 100644
--- a/xbmc/utils/FileUtils.cpp
+++ b/xbmc/utils/FileUtils.cpp
@@ -209,6 +209,20 @@ unsigned int CFileUtils::LoadFile(const std::string &filename, void* &outputBuff
     return 0;
   }
 
+  if (total_read + 1 < inputBuffSize)
+  {
+    /* free extra memory if more than 1 byte (cases 1 and 3) */
+    unsigned char *tempinputBuff = (unsigned char *)realloc(inputBuff, total_read);
+    if (!tempinputBuff)
+    {
+      /* just a precaution, shouldn't really happen */
+      CLog::Log(LOGERROR, "%s unable to reallocate buffer for file \"%s\"", __FUNCTION__, filename.c_str());
+      free(inputBuff);
+      return 0;
+    }
+    inputBuff = tempinputBuff;
+  }
+
   outputBuffer = (void *) inputBuff;
   return total_read;
 }