Don't fall to endless loop on broken tag structure

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/gallery-utils.c b/src/gallery-utils.c
index 7f1222a..96ba557 100644
--- a/src/gallery-utils.c
+++ b/src/gallery-utils.c
@@ -265,6 +265,12 @@ remove_tags (char **str, const char *tag_begin, const char *tag_end)
       src = g_strdup (dest);
       free (dest);
     }
+    else
+    {
+      /*  break in case of malformed tag structure, avoid endless loop  */
+      fprintf (stderr, "remove_tags: malformed tag structure detected, strange things can happen\n");
+      break;
+    }
   }
   *str = src;
 }