diff --git a/LEAKS b/LEAKS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b34b439
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LEAKS
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+==6704== Memcheck, a memory error detector
+==6704== Copyright (C) 2002-2024, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
+==6704== Using Valgrind-3.23.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
+==6704== Command: ./test
+==6704== 
+------------------------
+[+][1/1] Success: could find 'A-IM' in tree
+[+][2/2] Success: could find 'Accept' in tree
+[+][3/3] Success: could find 'Accept-Charset' in tree
+[+][4/4] Success: could find 'Accept-Datetime' in tree
+[+][5/5] Success: could find 'Accept-Encoding' in tree
+[+][6/6] Success: could find 'Accept-Language' in tree
+[+][7/7] Success: could find 'Access-Control-Request-Method' in tree
+[+][8/8] Success: could find 'Access-Control-Request-Headers' in tree
+[+][9/9] Success: could find 'Authorization' in tree
+[+][10/10] Success: could find 'Cache-Control' in tree
+[+][11/11] Success: could find 'Connection' in tree
+[+][12/12] Success: could find 'Content-Encoding' in tree
+[+][13/13] Success: could find 'Content-Length' in tree
+[+][14/14] Success: could find 'Content-MD5' in tree
+[+][15/15] Success: could find 'Content-Type' in tree
+[+][16/16] Success: could find 'Cookie' in tree
+[+][17/17] Success: could find 'Date' in tree
+[+][18/18] Success: could find 'Expect' in tree
+[+][19/19] Success: could find 'Forwarded' in tree
+[+][20/20] Success: could find 'From' in tree
+[+][21/21] Success: could find 'Host' in tree
+[+][22/22] Success: could find 'HTTP2-Settings' in tree
+[+][23/23] Success: could find 'If-Match' in tree
+[+][24/24] Success: could find 'If-Modified-Since' in tree
+[+][25/25] Success: could find 'If-None-Match' in tree
+[+][26/26] Success: could find 'If-Range' in tree
+[+][27/27] Success: could find 'If-Unmodified-Since' in tree
+[+][28/28] Success: could find 'Max-Forwards' in tree
+[+][29/29] Success: could find 'Origin' in tree
+[+][30/30] Success: could find 'Pragma' in tree
+[+][31/31] Success: could find 'Prefer' in tree
+[+][32/32] Success: could find 'Proxy-Authorization' in tree
+[+][33/33] Success: could find 'Range' in tree
+[+][34/34] Success: could find 'Referer' in tree
+[+][35/35] Success: could find 'TE' in tree
+[+][36/36] Success: could find 'Trailer' in tree
+[+][37/37] Success: could find 'Transfer-Encoding' in tree
+[+][38/38] Success: could find 'User-Agent' in tree
+[+][39/39] Success: could find 'Upgrade' in tree
+[+][40/40] Success: could find 'Via' in tree
+[+][41/41] Success: could find 'Warning' in tree
+[+][42/42] Success: could find 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests' in tree
+[+][43/43] Success: could find 'X-Requested-With' in tree
+[+][44/44] Success: could find 'DNT' in tree
+[+][45/45] Success: could find 'X-Forwarded-For' in tree
+[+][46/46] Success: could find 'X-Forwarded-Host' in tree
+[+][47/47] Success: could find 'X-Forwarded-Proto' in tree
+[+][48/48] Success: could find 'Front-End-Https' in tree
+[+][49/49] Success: could find 'X-Http-Method-Override' in tree
+[+][50/50] Success: could find 'X-ATT-DeviceID' in tree
+[+][51/51] Success: could find 'X-Wap-Profile' in tree
+[+][52/52] Success: could find 'Proxy-Connection' in tree
+[+][53/53] Success: could find 'X-UIDH' in tree
+[+][54/54] Success: could find 'X-Csrf-Token' in tree
+[+][55/55] Success: could find 'X-Request-ID' in tree
+[+][56/56] Success: could find 'X-Correlation-ID' in tree
+[+][57/57] Success: could find 'Correlation-ID' in tree
+[+][58/58] Success: could find 'Save-Data' in tree
+[+][59/59] Success: could find 'Sec-GPC' in tree
+[+][60/60] Success: could find 'Accept-CH' in tree
+[+][61/61] Success: could find 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' in tree
+[+][62/62] Success: could find 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' in tree
+[+][63/63] Success: could find 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' in tree
+[+][64/64] Success: could find 'Access-Control-Max-Age' in tree
+[+][65/65] Success: could find 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' in tree
+[+][66/66] Success: could find 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' in tree
+[+][67/67] Success: could find 'Accept-Patch' in tree
+[+][68/68] Success: could find 'Accept-Ranges' in tree
+[+][69/69] Success: could find 'Age' in tree
+[+][70/70] Success: could find 'Allow' in tree
+[+][71/71] Success: could find 'Alt-Svc' in tree
+[+][72/72] Success: could find 'Content-Disposition' in tree
+[+][73/73] Success: could find 'Content-Language' in tree
+[+][74/74] Success: could find 'Content-Location' in tree
+[+][75/75] Success: could find 'Content-Range' in tree
+[+][76/76] Success: could find 'Delta-Base' in tree
+[+][77/77] Success: could find 'ETag' in tree
+[+][78/78] Success: could find 'Expires' in tree
+[+][79/79] Success: could find 'IM' in tree
+[+][80/80] Success: could find 'Last-Modified' in tree
+[+][81/81] Success: could find 'Link' in tree
+[+][82/82] Success: could find 'Location' in tree
+[+][83/83] Success: could find 'P3P' in tree
+[+][84/84] Success: could find 'Preference-Applied' in tree
+[+][85/85] Success: could find 'Proxy-Authenticate' in tree
+[+][86/86] Success: could find 'Public-Key-Pins' in tree
+[+][87/87] Success: could find 'Retry-After' in tree
+[+][88/88] Success: could find 'Server' in tree
+[+][89/89] Success: could find 'Set-Cookie' in tree
+[+][90/90] Success: could find 'Strict-Transport-Security' in tree
+[+][91/91] Success: could find 'Tk' in tree
+[+][92/92] Success: could find 'Vary' in tree
+[+][93/93] Success: could find 'WWW-Authenticate' in tree
+[+][94/94] Success: could find 'X-Frame-Options' in tree
+[+][95/95] Success: could find 'Content-Security-Policy' in tree
+[+][96/96] Success: could find 'Expect-CT' in tree
+[+][97/97] Success: could find 'NEL' in tree
+[+][98/98] Success: could find 'Permissions-Policy' in tree
+[+][99/99] Success: could find 'Refresh' in tree
+[+][100/100] Success: could find 'Report-To' in tree
+[+][101/101] Success: could find 'Status' in tree
+[+][102/102] Success: could find 'Timing-Allow-Origin' in tree
+[+][103/103] Success: could find 'X-Content-Duration' in tree
+[+][104/104] Success: could find 'X-Content-Type-Options' in tree
+[+][105/105] Success: could find 'X-Powered-By' in tree
+[+][106/106] Success: could find 'X-Redirect-By' in tree
+[+][107/107] Success: could find 'X-UA-Compatible' in tree
+[+][108/108] Success: could find 'X-XSS-Protection' in tree
+------------------------
+[+] Freed all memory in use
+[f] Finished
+==6704== 
+==6704== HEAP SUMMARY:
+==6704==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
+==6704==   total heap usage: 2,056 allocs, 2,056 frees, 2,206,614 bytes allocated
+==6704== 
+==6704== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
+==6704== 
+==6704== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
+==6704== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0d0824f..6d853f7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ CFLAGS=-g3
 LIBFLAGS=-c
 CFILES=streecmp.c
 TFILES=test.c
+LEAKSFILE=LEAKS
 OUTPUT=streecmp
 TOUTPUT=test
 
@@ -19,5 +20,8 @@ run:
 run_test: 
 	./$(TOUTPUT)
 
+memcheck: 
+	valgrind ./$(TOUTPUT) 2>&1 | tee $(LEAKSFILE)
+
 clean: 
 	rm -rf $(OUTPUT) $(TOUTPUT)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 3d5fe39..2e89972 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -29,12 +29,13 @@ TECHNICALS
         * traverse tree and search for str
         * returns: id of string or 0 if there is no match
 
+LEAKS
+
+    LEAKS file contains the most recent valgrind memory leaks 
+    dump ran on test.c.
+
 TODO
 
-    * Memory leaks
-    * Alloc/free functions
-    * NULL checking
-    * Memset for initialization
     * gentree with custom seperator
 
 COMMITS
diff --git a/streecmp.c b/streecmp.c
index 67e5d50..8abed44 100644
--- a/streecmp.c
+++ b/streecmp.c
@@ -6,13 +6,28 @@
 
 int strs_cnt = 0; 
 
+void frenod(struct nod *nod) {
+    for (int i = 0; i < POOL_SIZE; i++) {
+        struct nod *p = nod->pool[i]; 
+        if (p == NULL) {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        frenod(p);
+    }
+
+    free(nod->pool);
+    memset(nod, 0, sizeof(struct nod));
+    free(nod); 
+}
+
 struct nod *allocnod(void) {
     struct nod *nod = (struct nod *) calloc(1, sizeof(struct nod));
     if (nod == NULL) {
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    nod->pool = (struct nod **) calloc(256, sizeof(struct nod *));
+    nod->pool = (struct nod **) calloc(POOL_SIZE, sizeof(struct nod *));
     if (nod->pool == NULL) {
         free(nod); 
         return NULL;
@@ -64,18 +79,24 @@ int mkstr(struct nod *nod, char *str) {
 int gentree(struct nod *nod, char *strs) {
     char *strs_cpy = strdup(strs);
     if (strs_cpy == NULL) {
-        return -1;
+        goto _err;
     }
 
     for (char *tok = strtok(strs_cpy, "\n"); tok != NULL; tok
             = strtok(NULL, "\n")) {
         int ret = mkstr(nod, tok);
         if (ret < 0) {
-            return -1;
+            goto _err_mkstr;
         }
     }
 
+    free(strs_cpy);
     return 0;
+
+_err_mkstr:
+    free(strs_cpy);
+_err:
+    return -1;
 }
 
 int streecmp(struct nod *nod, char *str) {
diff --git a/streecmp.h b/streecmp.h
index 8793f84..ebe5aff 100644
--- a/streecmp.h
+++ b/streecmp.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #ifndef STREECMP_H
 #define STREECMP_H
 
+#define POOL_SIZE 256
+
 struct nodval {
     int ival; 
     char cval;
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@ struct nod {
     struct nod **pool;
 };
 
+void frenod(struct nod *nod);
 struct nod *allocnod(void);
 struct nod *mknod(struct nod *nod, int loc);
 int mkstr(struct nod *nod, char *str);
diff --git a/test.c b/test.c
index bbeb4c5..d66ff3c 100644
--- a/test.c
+++ b/test.c
@@ -120,18 +120,18 @@ int main(void) {
         return -1;
     }
 
-    ret = gentree(rot, strs);
-    if (ret < 0) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "[-] Failed: could not generate tree\n");
-        return -1;
-    }
-
     char *strs_cpy = strdup(strs);
     if (strs_cpy == NULL) {
         fprintf(stderr, "[-] Failed: not enough dynamic memory\n");
         return -1;
     }
 
+    ret = gentree(rot, strs);
+    if (ret < 0) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[-] Failed: could not generate tree\n");
+        return -1;
+    }
+
     fprintf(stdout, "------------------------\n");
 
     int cnt = 1;
@@ -149,7 +149,12 @@ int main(void) {
     }
 
     fprintf(stdout, "------------------------\n");
-    fprintf(stdout, "[*] Done\n");
+
+    free(strs_cpy);
+    frenod(rot);
+
+    fprintf(stdout, "[+] Freed all memory in use\n");
+    fprintf(stdout, "[f] Finished\n");
 
     return 0;
 }