WT-2326 - Switch from dstrdup to dcalloc and strndup

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/bench/wtperf/config.c b/bench/wtperf/config.c
index 0b2fa8df6f1..5d77d11e2e9 100644
--- a/bench/wtperf/config.c
+++ b/bench/wtperf/config.c
@@ -442,12 +442,11 @@ config_opt(CONFIG *cfg, WT_CONFIG_ITEM *k, WT_CONFIG_ITEM *v)
 		}
 		strp = (char **)valueloc;
 		free(*strp);
-		newstr = dstrdup(v->str);
 		/*
-		 * We add a nullbyte to this string to truncate the
-		 * trailing quotation mark.
+		 * We duplicate the string to len rather than len+1 as we want
+		 * to truncate the trailing quotation mark.
 		 */
-		newstr[v->len] = '\0';
+		newstr = strndup(v->str,  v->len);
 		*strp = newstr;
 		break;
 	}