From: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@efficios.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 18:21:00 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Fix: session-descriptor.c: Dereference before null check
X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?p=lttng-tools.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ca258a7d30510f01d0760f4f529fed2bb5821b9a

Fix: session-descriptor.c: Dereference before null check

Coverity report:
  CID 1400682 (#1 of 1): Dereference before null check
  (REVERSE_INULL)check_after_deref: Null-checking descriptor suggests that
  it may be null, but it has already been dereferenced on all paths
  leading to the check.

Reported-by: (1400682) Dereference before null check
Signed-off-by: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
---

diff --git a/src/common/session-descriptor.c b/src/common/session-descriptor.c
index 713731c3e..6dea5ee7c 100644
--- a/src/common/session-descriptor.c
+++ b/src/common/session-descriptor.c
@@ -522,6 +522,10 @@ _lttng_session_descriptor_live_network_create(
 
 	descriptor = _lttng_session_descriptor_live_create(name,
 			live_timer_interval_us);
+	if (!descriptor) {
+		goto error;
+	}
+
 	descriptor->base.output_type =
 			LTTNG_SESSION_DESCRIPTOR_OUTPUT_TYPE_NETWORK;