Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> `strlen` returns the length of a string without the terminating null byte.
> To make sure enough memory is allocated we need to pass `strlen(..) + 1`
> to the allocation function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> path.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
> index 969b494..0ae8af5 100644
> --- a/path.c
> +++ b/path.c
> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static struct trie *make_trie_node(const char *key, void *value)
> struct trie *new_node = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*new_node));
> new_node->len = strlen(key);
> if (new_node->len) {
> - new_node->contents = xmalloc(new_node->len);
> + new_node->contents = xmalloc(new_node->len + 1);
> memcpy(new_node->contents, key, new_node->len);
> }
This structure looks like a counted string <len,ptr> that does not
want to have a terminating NUL after the contents, judging from the
way memcpy() copies only len and not len+1.
Did I write this (wondering why this was addressed to me)?
> new_node->value = value;
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