Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/3] Coverity: Resolve a FORWARD_NULL

Recent changes in the module seemed to have caused Coverity to reanalyze certain parts of the code. Previously the code was modified via commit id '11a11812' to resolve a different error (perhaps DEADCODE). Up through commit id '7b3f1f8c' there were no issues. The new error indicats the 'outbuf' was checked for NULL and then complains because of the dereference. Adding checks for non-NULL prior to the deref resulted in a DEADCODE message. So, resolve using an sa_assert() to keep Coverity quiet especially since it doesn't understand that outbuf will change as a result of a successful virCommandRun() call. Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- tests/commandtest.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tests/commandtest.c b/tests/commandtest.c index c5c3a9a..7d2161c 100644 --- a/tests/commandtest.c +++ b/tests/commandtest.c @@ -690,6 +690,7 @@ static int test17(const void *unused ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) goto cleanup; } + sa_assert(outbuf); if (*outbuf) { puts("output buffer is not an allocated empty string"); goto cleanup;