diff --git a/utils/loc_cfg.cpp b/utils/loc_cfg.cpp
index 7ffe6a43..a7697762 100644
--- a/utils/loc_cfg.cpp
+++ b/utils/loc_cfg.cpp
@@ -330,24 +330,25 @@ int loc_update_conf(const char* conf_data, int32_t length,
         // make a copy, so we do not tokenize the original data
         char* conf_copy = (char*)malloc(length+1);
 
-        if(conf_copy !=NULL)
+        if (conf_copy != NULL)
         {
-          memcpy(conf_copy, conf_data, length);
-          // we hard NULL the end of string to be safe
-          conf_copy[length] = 0;
-        }
+            memcpy(conf_copy, conf_data, length);
+            // we hard NULL the end of string to be safe
+            conf_copy[length] = 0;
 
-        // start with one record off
-        uint32_t num_params = table_length - 1;
-        char* saveptr = NULL;
-        char* input_buf = strtok_r(conf_copy, "\n", &saveptr);
-        ret = 0;
+            // start with one record off
+            uint32_t num_params = table_length - 1;
+            char* saveptr = NULL;
+            char* input_buf = strtok_r(conf_copy, "\n", &saveptr);
+            ret = 0;
 
-        LOC_LOGD("%s:%d]: num_params: %d\n", __func__, __LINE__, num_params);
-        while(num_params && input_buf) {
-            ret++;
-            num_params -= loc_fill_conf_item(input_buf, config_table, table_length);
-            input_buf = strtok_r(NULL, "\n", &saveptr);
+            LOC_LOGD("%s:%d]: num_params: %d\n", __func__, __LINE__, num_params);
+            while(num_params && input_buf) {
+                ret++;
+                num_params -= loc_fill_conf_item(input_buf, config_table, table_length);
+                input_buf = strtok_r(NULL, "\n", &saveptr);
+            }
+            free(conf_copy);
         }
     }