From 5b12955cd5a5702848a7dd4598152186fa67e511 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: searchivairus <leo@boytsov.info>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:53:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Memory leak in space_sparse_vector_inter.cc #165

---
 .../src/space/space_sparse_vector_inter.cc            | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/similarity_search/src/space/space_sparse_vector_inter.cc b/similarity_search/src/space/space_sparse_vector_inter.cc
index 0ed86dc..a5c0e73 100644
--- a/similarity_search/src/space/space_sparse_vector_inter.cc
+++ b/similarity_search/src/space/space_sparse_vector_inter.cc
@@ -55,13 +55,10 @@ Object* SpaceSparseVectorInter<dist_t>::CreateObjFromVect(IdType id, LabelType l
   char    *pData = NULL;
   size_t  dataLen = 0;
 
-  try {
-    PackSparseElements(InpVect, pData, dataLen);
-    return new Object(id, label, dataLen, pData);
-  } catch (...) {
-    delete [] pData;
-    throw;
-  }
+  PackSparseElements(InpVect, pData, dataLen);
+  unique_ptr<char[]>  data(pData);
+  unique_ptr<Object> obj(new Object(id, label, dataLen, data.get()));
+  return obj.release();
 }
 
 template <typename dist_t>