In virDomainActualNetDefFormat() a call to virDomainNetGetActualType(def) was made before a check for (!def) a few lines later. This triggered Coverity to note the possible NULL deref. Just moving the initialization to after the !def checks resolves the issue Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/conf/domain_conf.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index 3b295ab..f096bcf 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -16207,11 +16207,13 @@ virDomainActualNetDefFormat(virBufferPtr buf, virDomainNetDefPtr def, unsigned int flags) { - unsigned int type = virDomainNetGetActualType(def); - const char *typeStr = virDomainNetTypeToString(type); + unsigned int type; + const char *typeStr; if (!def) return 0; + type = virDomainNetGetActualType(def); + typeStr = virDomainNetTypeToString(type); if (!typeStr) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, -- 1.9.3 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list