[svn-r8058] Purpose:

    Bug fix

Description:
    Plug another small memory leak for fill-values.

Platforms tested:
    FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir)
    too minor to require h5committest

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index bef3170..edb2fc4 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.1 release
 
     Library
     -------
+        - Fixed small internal memory leaks of fill-value information.
+            QAK - 2004/01/13
         - Fixed bug that caused variable-length datatypes (strings or sequences)
             used for datasets in files with objects that were unlinked to
             fail to be read/written to a file.  QAK - 2004/01/13
-        - Fixed small internal memory leak of fill-value information.
-            QAK - 2004/01/06
         - Detect situation where szip 'pixels per block' is larger than the
             fastest changing dimension of a dataset's chunk size and disallow
             this (due to limits in szip library).  QAK - 2003/12/31
diff --git a/src/H5D.c b/src/H5D.c
index f7e09ab..08c37c5 100644
--- a/src/H5D.c
+++ b/src/H5D.c
@@ -2420,6 +2420,10 @@ H5D_open_oid(H5G_entry_t *ent, hid_t dxpl_id)
     ret_value = dataset;
 
 done:
+    /* Release fill value information */
+    if (H5O_reset(H5O_FILL_ID, &fill) <0)
+        HDONE_ERROR(H5E_DATASET, H5E_CANTRELEASE, NULL, "unable to release fill-value info")
+
     if (ret_value==NULL && dataset) {
         if (H5F_addr_defined(dataset->ent.header))
             H5O_close(&(dataset->ent));