Use g_uri_unref instead of g_free on g_uri_parse

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/badwolf.c b/badwolf.c
index 4c5a481..8578404 100644
--- a/badwolf.c
+++ b/badwolf.c
@@ -476,7 +476,16 @@ WebViewCb_load_failed_with_tls_errors(WebKitWebView *web_view,
 	}
 
 #ifndef USE_LIBSOUP2
-	g_free(failing_uri);
+	/* Calling g_free(failing_uri) ought to be the correct way but this causes a segfault.
+	 *
+	 * - documentation describes it as something which should be free
+	 * - implementation seems to make it a pointer that should be freed
+	 * - epiphany doesn't seems to free/unref it but gnome code seems to frequently have memleaks
+	 *
+	 * Decided to at least continue to try with using g_uri_unref(failing_uri) instead.
+	 * Related fediverse post: <https://queer.hacktivis.me/objects/cec7c4e8-6a58-4358-85bf-b66f9bb21a98>
+	 */
+	g_uri_unref(failing_uri);
 #else
 	soup_uri_free(failing_uri);
 #endif