From e180dde9c578d8a737a24a00f1d52355a53d55fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 16:06:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tool_findfile: free mem properly

Follow-up to 764e4f066d5

Closes #8242
---
 src/tool_findfile.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tool_findfile.c b/src/tool_findfile.c
index 766586f695..f2ab09d0ea 100644
--- a/src/tool_findfile.c
+++ b/src/tool_findfile.c
@@ -126,10 +126,12 @@ char *findfile(const char *fname, int dotscore)
         home = c;
       }
       if(list[i].withoutdot) {
-        if(!dotscore || xdg)
+        if(!dotscore || xdg) {
           /* this is not looking for .curlrc, or the XDG_CONFIG_HOME was
              defined so we skip the extended check */
+          curl_free(home);
           continue;
+        }
         filename++; /* move past the leading dot */
         dotscore = 0; /* disable it for this check */
       }