Memory leak in case of empty value

Addressing coverity issue. Ticket #513.
The memory was really leaked when
the configuration value was empty.
Added unit test that confirmed the bug.

2 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/common/ini/ini_config.c b/common/ini/ini_config.c
index e87419a30..bd8f88b2c 100644
--- a/common/ini/ini_config.c
+++ b/common/ini/ini_config.c
@@ -1832,6 +1832,8 @@ static char **get_str_cfg_array(struct collection_item *item,
 
     if (error) *error = EOK;
     if (size) *size = count;
+    /* If count is 0 the copy needs to be freed */
+    if (count == 0) free(copy);
     TRACE_FLOW_STRING("get_str_cfg_array", "Exit");
     return array;
 }
diff --git a/common/ini/ini_config_ut.c b/common/ini/ini_config_ut.c
index 1c82a0579..5fe30d784 100644
--- a/common/ini/ini_config_ut.c
+++ b/common/ini/ini_config_ut.c
@@ -976,6 +976,48 @@ int get_test(void)
     COLOUT(for (i=0;i<size;i++) printf("Attribute: [%s]\n", prop_array[i]));
     free_attribute_list(prop_array);
 
+    COLOUT(printf("Get empty array item\n"));
+
+    item = NULL;
+    error = get_config_item("domains/EXAMPLE.COM",
+                            "empty_value",
+                            ini_config,
+                            &item);
+    if(error) {
+        printf("Expected success but got error! %d\n", error);
+        free_ini_config(ini_config);
+        return error;
+    }
+
+    /* Item should be found */
+    if (item == NULL) {
+        printf("Expected success but got NULL.\n");
+        free_ini_config(ini_config);
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    COLOUT(col_debug_item(item));
+
+    error = 0;
+    size = 0; /* Here size is not optional!!! */
+    strarray = get_string_config_array(item, ",", &size, &error);
+    if(error) {
+        printf("Expect success got error %d.\n", error);
+        free_ini_config(ini_config);
+        return error;
+    }
+
+    if (size != 0) {
+        for (i=0; i<size; i++) printf("%s\n", *(strarray + i));
+        printf("Expected size=0, got size=%d\n", size);
+        free_string_config_array(strarray);
+        free_ini_config(ini_config);
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+
+    free_string_config_array(strarray);
+
     free_ini_config(ini_config);
     COLOUT(printf("Done with get test!\n"));
     return EOK;