Detected by Coverity. The beginning of the function already filtered out NULL objectContentList as invalid; more likely, the code was trying to see if esxVI_RetrieveProperties modified *objectContentList. * src/esx/esx_vi.c (esxVI_LookupObjectContentByType): Check correct pointer. --- Matthias, I'm not sure if this is the correct fix, because I don't know how escVI_RetrieveProperties is supposed to work. src/esx/esx_vi.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/esx/esx_vi.c b/src/esx/esx_vi.c index c5c38ca..64e5b73 100644 --- a/src/esx/esx_vi.c +++ b/src/esx/esx_vi.c @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ /* * esx_vi.c: client for the VMware VI API 2.5 to manage ESX hosts * - * Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc. + * Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Red Hat, Inc. * Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or @@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@ esxVI_LookupObjectContentByType(esxVI_Context *ctx, goto cleanup; } - if (objectContentList == NULL) { + if (*objectContentList == NULL) { switch (occurrence) { case esxVI_Occurrence_OptionalItem: case esxVI_Occurrence_OptionalList: -- 1.7.4.4 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list