Fix from upstream git for:
Bug 24458406 - g_strerror caches and tries to reuse a pointer to a stack buffer
Included in later 2.48 release upstream.
From f87e002313d566dcce71a9aba040d22ddb5c1e80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Winship <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:57:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix g_strerror() on non-glibc
When using one of the codepaths that copies the error string into buf,
make sure the string gets strdup() afterward.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758194
---
glib/gstrfuncs.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/glib/gstrfuncs.c b/glib/gstrfuncs.c
index b5a862b..975be0b 100644
--- a/glib/gstrfuncs.c
+++ b/glib/gstrfuncs.c
@@ -1293,6 +1293,8 @@ g_strerror (gint errnum)
if (error)
g_print ("%s\n", error->message);
}
+ else if (msg == (const gchar *)buf)
+ msg = g_strdup (buf);
g_hash_table_insert (errors, GINT_TO_POINTER (errnum), (char *) msg);
}
--
2.7.4