From 823868f767d834fce432cd957cff905907d2e4c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Nelless <andrew@symless.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 01:07:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] #6037 Fix potential memory leak if SetClipboardData fails

---
 src/lib/platform/MSWindowsClipboard.cpp | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/platform/MSWindowsClipboard.cpp b/src/lib/platform/MSWindowsClipboard.cpp
index 2373d255..5a807a0c 100644
--- a/src/lib/platform/MSWindowsClipboard.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/platform/MSWindowsClipboard.cpp
@@ -88,7 +88,11 @@ MSWindowsClipboard::empty()
 
     // mark clipboard as being owned by synergy
     HGLOBAL data = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE | GMEM_DDESHARE, 1);
-    SetClipboardData(getOwnershipFormat(), data);
+    if (NULL == SetClipboardData(getOwnershipFormat(), data)) {
+        LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "failed to set clipboard data"));
+        GlobalFree(data);
+        return false;
+    }
 
     return true;
 }