[manaila]

Hi,
I'm struggling with pointers with regard to memory allocation and deallocation.
In the below code, I have two functions, func() and func2(); in func I allocate memory using malloc and in func2 I assign the pointer returned from func to the newly defined pointer.
So since I have allocated memory, I also have to deallocate it when done using it to avoid memory leaks. The problem is I am not sure where I have to deallocate it (well, I understand it has to be after when done with using that memory), but... where..?
I have commented out the statement where I thought it was necessary to free the memory but when executing the program I get the "...double free or corruption (out)..." message.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int* func(int var)
{
    int *a = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int));
    a = &var;
    return a;
}

void func2()
{
    int *b = func(5);
    printf("*b = %d\n", *b);
    //free(b);    
}

int main()
{
    func2();
    return 0;
}

Can anyone please explain to me this phenomena of memory allocation/deallocation based on the above code...Do I "free(b)" or "free(a)" ?