From 2bf77561966c87c0a410a743b2307d955e2135e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephan Witt <switt@lyx.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 08:12:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid potential leak of memory pointed to by QTreeWidgetItem
 catItem

---
 src/frontends/qt/GuiLyXFiles.cpp | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/frontends/qt/GuiLyXFiles.cpp b/src/frontends/qt/GuiLyXFiles.cpp
index 6a59e6eea3..096a390d64 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt/GuiLyXFiles.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt/GuiLyXFiles.cpp
@@ -418,8 +418,9 @@ void GuiLyXFiles::updateContents()
 					qstring_to_ucs4(guiString(catsave.mid(catsave.indexOf('/') + 1)))));
 		}
 		cat =  toqstr(translateIfPossible(qstring_to_ucs4(guiString(cat))));
-		QTreeWidgetItem * catItem = new QTreeWidgetItem();
+		QTreeWidgetItem * catItem;
 		if (!cats.contains(cat)) {
+			catItem = new QTreeWidgetItem();
 			catItem->setText(0, cat);
 			catItem->setFont(0, capfont);
 			filesLW->insertTopLevelItem(0, catItem);