Question

I have declared the following struct:

typedef struct _RECOGNITIONRESULT {
        int begin_time_ms, end_time_ms;
        char* word;
} RECOGNITIONRESULT;

There is a method that creates an array of RECOGNITIONRESULT and fills it (for test purposes only):

void test_realloc(RECOGNITIONRESULT** p, int count){
    int i;
    *p = (RECOGNITIONRESULT *)realloc(*p, count * sizeof(RECOGNITIONRESULT));
    for (i = 0; i < count; i++){
        (*p)[i].begin_time_ms = 2*i;
        (*p)[i].end_time_ms = 2*i+1;
        (*p)[i].word=(char *) malloc ( (strlen("hello"+1) * sizeof(char ) ));
        strcpy((*p)[i].word,"hello");
    }
}

The method to free memory is:

void free_realloc(RECOGNITIONRESULT* p, int count){
    int i = 0;
    if(p != NULL){
        if (count > 0){
            for (i = 0; i < count; i++){
                free(p[i].word);      //THE PROBLEM IS HERE.
            }
        }
        free(p);
    }
}

The main method calls those methods like this:

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    int count = 10;
    RECOGNITIONRESULT *p = NULL;
    test_realloc(&p,count);
    free_realloc(p,count);
    return 0;
}

Then if I try to free the memory allocated for “word”, I get the following error:

HEAP CORRUPTION DETECTED: after normal block (#63) at 0x003D31D8.
CRT detected that the application wrote to memory after end of heap buffer.

Using the debugger I’ve discovered that the crash occurs when calling free(p[i].word);

What am I doing wrong? How can I free he memory for the strings?

Answer 1

The problem is in your allocation of memory for word. strlen("hello"+1) should be strlen("hello")+1.