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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
