vkDestroyDescriptorPool(3)

# vkDestroyDescriptorPool(3) Manual Page

## Name

vkDestroyDescriptorPool - Destroy a descriptor pool object

## C Specification

To destroy a descriptor pool, call:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    void vkDestroyDescriptorPool(
        VkDevice                                    device,
        VkDescriptorPool                            descriptorPool,
        const VkAllocationCallbacks*                pAllocator);

## Parameters

- `device` is the logical device that destroys the descriptor pool.

- `descriptorPool` is the descriptor pool to destroy.

- `pAllocator` controls host memory allocation as described in the Memory Allocation chapter.

## Description

When a pool is destroyed, all descriptor sets allocated from the pool are implicitly freed and become invalid. Descriptor sets allocated from a given pool do not need to be freed before destroying that descriptor pool.

Valid Usage

- VUID-vkDestroyDescriptorPool-descriptorPool-00303
  All submitted commands that refer to `descriptorPool` (via any allocated descriptor sets) must have completed execution

- VUID-vkDestroyDescriptorPool-descriptorPool-00304
  If `VkAllocationCallbacks` were provided when `descriptorPool` was created, a compatible set of callbacks must be provided here

- VUID-vkDestroyDescriptorPool-descriptorPool-00305
  If no `VkAllocationCallbacks` were provided when `descriptorPool` was created, `pAllocator` must be `NULL`

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-vkDestroyDescriptorPool-device-parameter
  `device` must be a valid VkDevice handle

- VUID-vkDestroyDescriptorPool-descriptorPool-parameter
  If `descriptorPool` is not VK_NULL_HANDLE, `descriptorPool` must be a valid VkDescriptorPool handle

- VUID-vkDestroyDescriptorPool-pAllocator-parameter
  If `pAllocator` is not `NULL`, `pAllocator` must be a valid pointer to a valid VkAllocationCallbacks structure

- VUID-vkDestroyDescriptorPool-descriptorPool-parent
  If `descriptorPool` is a valid handle, it must have been created, allocated, or retrieved from `device`

Host Synchronization

- Host access to `descriptorPool` must be externally synchronized

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkAllocationCallbacks, VkDescriptorPool, VkDevice

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

## Copyright

Copyright 2014-2026 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0