Issue spotted by valgrind: ==5290== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc() ==5290== at 0x4C30D3B: free (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==5290== by 0x4E54401: free_dvb_dev (dvb-dev.c:49) ==5290== by 0x4E5449A: dvb_dev_free_devices (dvb-dev.c:94) ==5290== by 0x4E547BA: dvb_dev_free (dvb-dev.c:121) ==5290== by 0x10881A: main (leak.c:26) ==5290== Address 0x5e55910 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 28 free'd ==5290== at 0x4C30D3B: free (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==5290== by 0x4E56504: dvb_v5_free (dvb-fe.c:85) ==5290== by 0x4E547B2: dvb_dev_free (dvb-dev.c:119) ==5290== by 0x10881A: main (leak.c:26) ==5290== Block was alloc'd at ==5290== at 0x4C2FB0F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==5290== by 0x5119C39: strdup (strdup.c:42) ==5290== by 0x4E55B42: handle_device_change (dvb-dev-local.c:137) ==5290== by 0x4E561DA: dvb_local_find (dvb-dev-local.c:323) ==5290== by 0x10880E: main (leak.c:10) Signed-off-by: Rafaël Carré <funman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c b/lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c index 920e81fb..b50b61b4 100644 --- a/lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c +++ b/lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ static struct dvb_open_descriptor */ flags &= ~O_NONBLOCK; - ret = dvb_fe_open_fname(parms, dev->path, flags); + ret = dvb_fe_open_fname(parms, strdup(dev->path), flags); if (ret) { free(open_dev); return NULL; -- 2.14.1