From 7b54b0f40623b7c5e3a657f03dfe1fa06926ed79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kim Kulling <kimkulling@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:54:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix leak

- closes https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/5390
---
 code/AssetLib/Irr/IRRLoader.cpp | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/code/AssetLib/Irr/IRRLoader.cpp b/code/AssetLib/Irr/IRRLoader.cpp
index 99e053892..2a481a6d8 100644
--- a/code/AssetLib/Irr/IRRLoader.cpp
+++ b/code/AssetLib/Irr/IRRLoader.cpp
@@ -1234,7 +1234,10 @@ void IRRImporter::InternReadFile(const std::string &pFile, aiScene *pScene, IOSy
     // Parse the XML
     // Find the scene root from document root.
     const pugi::xml_node &sceneRoot = documentRoot.child("irr_scene");
-    if (!sceneRoot) throw new DeadlyImportError("IRR: <irr_scene> not found in file");
+    if (!sceneRoot) {
+        delete root;
+        throw new DeadlyImportError("IRR: <irr_scene> not found in file");
+    }
     for (pugi::xml_node &child : sceneRoot.children()) {
         // XML elements are either nodes, animators, attributes, or materials
         if (!ASSIMP_stricmp(child.name(), "node")) {