From fd33d025639a0d754fa3ac9c256e475d8bb7e4c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:50:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(esp_http_server): fix memory leak in
 httpd_req_async_handler_begin

Free scratch memory when response headers allocation fails
---
 components/esp_http_server/src/httpd_txrx.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/components/esp_http_server/src/httpd_txrx.c b/components/esp_http_server/src/httpd_txrx.c
index 1404d4f994..475eb84fea 100644
--- a/components/esp_http_server/src/httpd_txrx.c
+++ b/components/esp_http_server/src/httpd_txrx.c
@@ -675,6 +675,7 @@ esp_err_t httpd_req_async_handler_begin(httpd_req_t *r, httpd_req_t **out)
 
     async_aux->resp_hdrs = calloc(hd->config.max_resp_headers, sizeof(struct resp_hdr));
     if (async_aux->resp_hdrs == NULL) {
+        free(async_aux->scratch);
         free(async_aux);
         free(async);
         return ESP_ERR_NO_MEM;