womm.patch

diff --git a/src/c/pyeclib_c/pyeclib_c.c b/src/c/pyeclib_c/pyeclib_c.c
index 40acd39..1394708 100644
--- a/src/c/pyeclib_c/pyeclib_c.c
+++ b/src/c/pyeclib_c/pyeclib_c.c
@@ -1047,6 +1047,7 @@ fragment_metadata_to_dict(fragment_metadata_t *fragment_metadata)
     "chksum_mismatch", fragment_metadata->chksum_mismatch,
     "backend_id", backend_id_str,
     "backend_version", fragment_metadata->backend_version);
+  check_and_free_buffer(encoded_chksum);
   if (metadata_dict == NULL) {
     pyeclib_c_seterr(-ENOMEM, "fragment_metadata_to_dict ERROR: ");
     return NULL;
diff --git a/test/test_pyeclib_api.py b/test/test_pyeclib_api.py
index e50758a..c51f8a9 100644
--- a/test/test_pyeclib_api.py
+++ b/test/test_pyeclib_api.py
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ class TestPyECLibDriver(unittest.TestCase):
         # 1. Prepare the expected memory allocation
         encoded = ec_driver.encode(b'aaa')
         ec_driver.get_metadata(encoded[0], formatted=True)
-        loop_range = range(1000)
+        loop_range = range(8000)
 
         # 2. Get current memory usage
         baseline_usage = resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF)[2]