Index: openssh-5.4p1/sftp-client.c
===================================================================
--- openssh-5.4p1.orig/sftp-client.c
+++ openssh-5.4p1/sftp-client.c
@@ -713,6 +713,7 @@ do_realpath(struct sftp_conn *conn, char
 		u_int status = buffer_get_int(&msg);
 
 		error("Couldn't canonicalise: %s", fx2txt(status));
+		buffer_free(&msg);
 		return(NULL);
 	} else if (type != SSH2_FXP_NAME)
 		fatal("Expected SSH2_FXP_NAME(%u) packet, got %u",