mem leak on error path and error propagation fix

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2559)
(cherry picked from commit e0670973d5c0b837eb5a9f1670e47107f466fbc7)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c b/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c
index d089af7a28..2c41c6e7a9 100644
--- a/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c
+++ b/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c
@@ -342,8 +342,10 @@ static int eckey_priv_encode(PKCS8_PRIV_KEY_INFO *p8, const EVP_PKEY *pkey)
     }
 
     if (!PKCS8_pkey_set0(p8, OBJ_nid2obj(NID_X9_62_id_ecPublicKey), 0,
-                         ptype, pval, ep, eplen))
+                         ptype, pval, ep, eplen)) {
+        OPENSSL_free(ep);
         return 0;
+    }
 
     return 1;
 }