From 76c62139c8dfc298c525fe5789b6036563bddf38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:48:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix tiny memory leak when pasting multple files

---
 gtk2_ardour/utils.cc | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/utils.cc b/gtk2_ardour/utils.cc
index 62c8084619..7dacebf109 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/utils.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/utils.cc
@@ -890,7 +890,10 @@ ARDOUR_UI_UTILS::convert_drop_to_paths (vector<string>& paths, const SelectionDa
 		 */
 		string txt = data.get_text();
 
-		char* p = (char *) malloc (txt.length() + 1);
+		/* copy to char* for easy char-wise checks and modification */
+		char* tmp = (char *) malloc (txt.length() + 1);
+		char* p   = tmp;
+
 		txt.copy (p, txt.length(), 0);
 		p[txt.length()] = '\0';
 
@@ -922,7 +925,7 @@ ARDOUR_UI_UTILS::convert_drop_to_paths (vector<string>& paths, const SelectionDa
 			}
 		}
 
-		free ((void*)p);
+		free ((void*)tmp);
 
 		if (uris.empty()) {
 			return false;