From 8fca656a165091025bad4d9354330d8ecd2e8105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niels Dossche <7771979+ndossche@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:28:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] standard: Move freeing of temp buffer and use efree variant

---
 ext/standard/file.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ext/standard/file.c b/ext/standard/file.c
index fdeabd1872d20..089b3940e08cd 100644
--- a/ext/standard/file.c
+++ b/ext/standard/file.c
@@ -663,11 +663,10 @@ PHP_FUNCTION(file)
 			p = e;
 			goto parse_eol;
 		}
-	}
 
-	if (target_buf) {
-		zend_string_free(target_buf);
+		zend_string_efree(target_buf);
 	}
+
 	php_stream_close(stream);
 }
 /* }}} */