diff --git a/src/client/src/tscSQLParser.c b/src/client/src/tscSQLParser.c
index 5f888834ec..96fc7b806f 100644
--- a/src/client/src/tscSQLParser.c
+++ b/src/client/src/tscSQLParser.c
@@ -8485,7 +8485,10 @@ int32_t loadAllTableMeta(SSqlObj* pSql, struct SSqlInfo* pInfo) {
 
     size_t len = strlen(name);
       
-    taosHashGetCloneExt(tscTableMetaMap, name, len, NULL,  (void **)&pTableMeta, &tableMetaCapacity);
+    if (NULL == taosHashGetCloneExt(tscTableMetaMap, name, len, NULL,  (void **)&pTableMeta, &tableMetaCapacity)) {
+      // not found
+      tfree(pTableMeta);
+    }
 
     if (pTableMeta && pTableMeta->id.uid > 0) {
       tscDebug("0x%"PRIx64" retrieve table meta %s from local buf", pSql->self, name);
diff --git a/src/client/src/tscServer.c b/src/client/src/tscServer.c
index 783c7a3dbe..e7ba336f26 100644
--- a/src/client/src/tscServer.c
+++ b/src/client/src/tscServer.c
@@ -2951,7 +2951,9 @@ int32_t tscGetTableMetaImpl(SSqlObj* pSql, STableMetaInfo *pTableMetaInfo, bool
   if (pTableMetaInfo->tableMetaCapacity != 0 && pTableMetaInfo->pTableMeta != NULL) {
     memset(pTableMetaInfo->pTableMeta, 0, pTableMetaInfo->tableMetaCapacity);
   } 
-  taosHashGetCloneExt(tscTableMetaMap, name, len, NULL, (void **)&(pTableMetaInfo->pTableMeta), &pTableMetaInfo->tableMetaCapacity);
+  if (NULL == taosHashGetCloneExt(tscTableMetaMap, name, len, NULL, (void **)&(pTableMetaInfo->pTableMeta), &pTableMetaInfo->tableMetaCapacity)) {
+    tfree(pTableMetaInfo->pTableMeta); 
+  } 
   
   STableMeta* pMeta   = pTableMetaInfo->pTableMeta;
   STableMeta* pSTMeta = (STableMeta *)(pSql->pBuf);
diff --git a/src/client/src/tscUtil.c b/src/client/src/tscUtil.c
index e73ce3583c..280f7a5364 100644
--- a/src/client/src/tscUtil.c
+++ b/src/client/src/tscUtil.c
@@ -4504,25 +4504,24 @@ int32_t tscCreateTableMetaFromSTableMeta(STableMeta** ppChild, const char* name,
   STableMeta* pChild = *ppChild;
 
   size_t sz = (p != NULL) ? tscGetTableMetaSize(p) : 0; //ppSTableBuf actually capacity may larger than sz, dont care 
-  if (p != NULL && sz != 0) {
+  if (sz != 0) {
     memset((char *)p, 0, sz);
   }
 
-  STableMeta* pChild1;
-   
-  taosHashGetCloneExt(tscTableMetaMap, pChild->sTableName, strnlen(pChild->sTableName, TSDB_TABLE_FNAME_LEN), NULL, (void **)&p, &sz);
-  *ppSTable = p; 
+  if (NULL == taosHashGetCloneExt(tscTableMetaMap, pChild->sTableName, strnlen(pChild->sTableName, TSDB_TABLE_FNAME_LEN), NULL, (void **)&p, &sz)) {
+    tfree(p);
+  } else {
+    *ppSTable = p; 
+  }
 
   // tableMeta exists, build child table meta according to the super table meta
   // the uid need to be checked in addition to the general name of the super table.
   if (p && p->id.uid > 0 && pChild->suid == p->id.uid) {
-
     int32_t totalBytes    = (p->tableInfo.numOfColumns + p->tableInfo.numOfTags) * sizeof(SSchema);
     int32_t tableMetaSize =  sizeof(STableMeta)  + totalBytes;
     if (*tableMetaCapacity < tableMetaSize) {
-      pChild1 = realloc(pChild, tableMetaSize);
-      if(pChild1 == NULL) 
-        return -1;
+      STableMeta* pChild1 = realloc(pChild, tableMetaSize);
+      if(pChild1 == NULL) return -1;
       pChild = pChild1; 
       *tableMetaCapacity = (size_t)tableMetaSize;
     }