From db3b8525fd06c39b8ef0e4afeb77cb11807aa105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stéphane Raimbault <stephane.raimbault@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:42:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix stupid sizeof on char*

---
 src/modbus-rtu.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/modbus-rtu.c b/src/modbus-rtu.c
index 64a297a..59e0b77 100644
--- a/src/modbus-rtu.c
+++ b/src/modbus-rtu.c
@@ -1030,7 +1030,8 @@ modbus_t* modbus_new_rtu(const char *device,
     ctx->backend_data = (modbus_rtu_t *) malloc(sizeof(modbus_rtu_t));
     ctx_rtu = (modbus_rtu_t *)ctx->backend_data;
 
-    device_size = sizeof(device);
+    /* Device name and \0 */
+    device_size = (strlen(device) + 1) * sizeof(char);
     if (device_size == 0) {
         fprintf(stderr, "The device string is empty\n");
         modbus_free(ctx);
--
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