From 1aa403ebd1a2bee085327c10f28e175c7494cd6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JCW <a1q123456@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 16:33:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix

Signed-off-by: JCW <a1q123456@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/xrpld/app/consensus/RCLConsensus.cpp | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/xrpld/app/consensus/RCLConsensus.cpp b/src/xrpld/app/consensus/RCLConsensus.cpp
index 3a872bf9a5..ed54f770b0 100644
--- a/src/xrpld/app/consensus/RCLConsensus.cpp
+++ b/src/xrpld/app/consensus/RCLConsensus.cpp
@@ -1136,12 +1136,13 @@ RclConsensusLogger::~RclConsensusLogger()
     {
         thread_local std::string buffer;
         buffer.reserve(1024);
+        buffer.clear();
         beast::detail::SimpleJsonWriter writer{buffer};
         writer.startObject();
         writer.writeKey("Message");
         writer.writeString(outSs.str());
         writer.endObject();
-        j_.sink().writeAlways(beast::severities::kInfo, std::string{writer.finish()});
+        j_.sink().writeAlways(beast::severities::kInfo, writer.finish());
     }
     else
     {