From 331cfa5387633084e20f088078ed0c5a9fa5a434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wagner Bruna <wbruna@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:25:30 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: release VAE compute buffer after tiled encoding (#1465)

---
 src/vae.hpp | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/vae.hpp b/src/vae.hpp
index dc69535e..54bd88ab 100644
--- a/src/vae.hpp
+++ b/src/vae.hpp
@@ -142,9 +142,10 @@ public:
                                    "vae encode compute failed while processing a tile");
         } else {
             output = _compute(n_threads, input, false);
-            free_compute_buffer();
         }
 
+        free_compute_buffer();
+
         if (output.empty()) {
             LOG_ERROR("vae encode compute failed");
             return {};