This was causing a memory leak in cases like `gltestsrc ! gltransformation scale-x=0.5 ! glimagesink`.
Parent meta was being added in assumption that those buffers are different, which was not the case here,
creating a reference loop and never freeing the buffer.
Co-authored-by: Matthew Waters <matthew@centricular.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/5453>
* buffer meta to hold one reference of inbuf, this can avoid this
* buffer sync problem.
*/
- gst_buffer_add_parent_buffer_meta (outbuf, inbuf);
+ if (inbuf != outbuf)
+ gst_buffer_add_parent_buffer_meta (outbuf, inbuf);
return ret ? GST_FLOW_OK : GST_FLOW_ERROR;
}