If the string was non-NULL but empty (str="\0"), the following \0 assignment
would write to str[-1] and thus cause memory corruption.

On PPC and MIPS, this was causing crashes in glibc.
---
 src/storage.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/storage.c b/src/storage.c
index 47bd0cb..20766a3 100644
--- a/src/storage.c
+++ b/src/storage.c
@@ -212,7 +212,11 @@ gchar **connman_storage_get_services()
        closedir(dir);
 
        str = g_string_free(result, FALSE);
-       if (str) {
+       if (str && str[0] != '\0') {
+               /*
+                * Remove the trailing separator so that services doesn't end up
+                * with an empty element.
+                */
                str[strlen(str) - 1] = '\0';
                services = g_strsplit(str, "/", -1);
        }
-- 
1.7.10.4

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