Found when building on Fedora 36 on s390x. C compiler for the host machine: gcc (gcc 12.0.1 "gcc (GCC) 12.0.1 20220308 (Red Hat 12.0.1-0)") C linker for the host machine: gcc ld.bfd 2.37-24 In function ‘cpuTestUpdateLiveCompare’, inlined from ‘cpuTestUpdateLive’ at ../dist-unpack/libvirt-8.2.5/tests/cputest.c:784:12: ../dist-unpack/libvirt-8.2.5/tests/cputest.c:696:21: warning: potential null pointer dereference [-Wnull-dereference] 696 | featAct->policy == VIR_CPU_FEATURE_REQUIRE) || | ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy(a)linux.ibm.com&gt; --- tests/cputest.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tests/cputest.c b/tests/cputest.c index 609b5df7c6..95fb37d15c 100644 --- a/tests/cputest.c +++ b/tests/cputest.c @@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ cpuTestUpdateLiveCompare(virArch arch, if ((cmp == 0 && featAct->policy == VIR_CPU_FEATURE_REQUIRE && featExp->policy == VIR_CPU_FEATURE_DISABLE) || - (cmp < 0 && + (cmp < 0 && featAct && featAct->policy == VIR_CPU_FEATURE_REQUIRE) || (cmp > 0 && featExp->policy == VIR_CPU_FEATURE_DISABLE)) { -- 2.33.1