CentOS 5 :: Xmlrpc-c Server Free String Memory Alloc-ed By Xmlrpc_parse_value

I have the following function on my xmlrpc server side.

The registration of this function is done as follows from the main function:

The above function makes the server segfault some where on the return path and client gets the response:

Here is what GDB shows when server segfaults....

However if I remove the line "xmlrpc_strfree (node_name);" then server does not segfault and client receives the response correctly. In the xmlrpc-c code it clearly says " Return the string in newly malloc'ed storage that Caller must free." in xmlrpc_data.c::xmlrpc_read_string() which is the function that gets called from xmlrpc_parse_value().