From 062f4bf04798e5cf697348e3a95e1960bc9e7e9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NRK <nrk@disroot.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:54:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] player: fix leak on client-message send failure

when there's a flood of events causing the event queue to
overflow, the duplicated client-message payload gets dropped
without being released. free it on failure too.

discovered while trying to trigger #10110.
---
 player/client.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/player/client.c b/player/client.c
index e23b98b00f..61c998dbb8 100644
--- a/player/client.c
+++ b/player/client.c
@@ -818,11 +818,13 @@ int mp_client_send_event(struct MPContext *mpctx, const char *client_name,
         r = send_event(ctx, &event_data, false);
     } else {
         r = -1;
-        talloc_free(data);
     }
 
     mp_mutex_unlock(&clients->lock);
 
+    if (r < 0)
+        talloc_free(data);
+
     return r;
 }