From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:15:15 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Fix minor memory leak in find_emacs_executable
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Fix minor memory leak in find_emacs_executable

* src/emacs.c (find_emacs_executable): Free candidate if unused.

(cherry picked from commit 670603533c35645fa732092b441faae55ddb1a6a)
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diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index 6e8ef83a81b..1239bb7bfda 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -826,6 +826,7 @@ find_emacs_executable (char const *argv0, ptrdiff_t *candidate_size)
 
 	      if (real_name)
 		{
+		  xfree (candidate);
 		  *candidate_size = strlen (real_name) + 1;
 		  return real_name;
 		}