diff.c: call regfree to free memory allocated by regcomp when necessary

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 93004922d..19b5bf63e 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -912,7 +912,10 @@ static void free_diff_words_data(struct emit_callback *ecbdata)
 		free (ecbdata->diff_words->minus.orig);
 		free (ecbdata->diff_words->plus.text.ptr);
 		free (ecbdata->diff_words->plus.orig);
-		free(ecbdata->diff_words->word_regex);
+		if (ecbdata->diff_words->word_regex) {
+			regfree(ecbdata->diff_words->word_regex);
+			free(ecbdata->diff_words->word_regex);
+		}
 		free(ecbdata->diff_words);
 		ecbdata->diff_words = NULL;
 	}