From 2f6e17f6817d2f122c9b5f3eb94b4cb28bd3179e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Norman Maurer <nmaurer@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:49:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make sure we catch UnsupportedOperationException for derived
 buffers

---
 .../src/main/java/io/netty/channel/ChannelHandlerUtil.java | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/ChannelHandlerUtil.java b/transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/ChannelHandlerUtil.java
index d4b5582503..27181cc004 100644
--- a/transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/ChannelHandlerUtil.java
+++ b/transport/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/ChannelHandlerUtil.java
@@ -173,7 +173,12 @@ public final class ChannelHandlerUtil {
      */
     public static void freeMessage(Object msg) throws Exception {
         if (msg instanceof Freeable) {
-            ((Freeable) msg).free();
+            try {
+                ((Freeable) msg).free();
+            } catch (UnsupportedOperationException e) {
+                // This can happen for derived buffers
+                // TODO: Think about this
+            }
         }
     }