In virPolkitAgentCreate neglected to initialize agent to NULL. If there was an error in the pipe, then we jump to error and would have an issue. Found by coverity. Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Pushing as trivial src/util/virpolkit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/virpolkit.c b/src/util/virpolkit.c index 3d2be61..44f2328 100644 --- a/src/util/virpolkit.c +++ b/src/util/virpolkit.c @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ virPolkitAgentDestroy(virPolkitAgentPtr agent) virPolkitAgentPtr virPolkitAgentCreate(void) { - virPolkitAgentPtr agent; + virPolkitAgentPtr agent = NULL; virCommandPtr cmd = virCommandNewArgList(PKTTYAGENT, "--process", NULL); int pipe_fd[2] = {-1, -1}; struct pollfd pollfd; -- 2.5.0