Passing null pointer as input parameter to freeaddrinfo() is undefined behaviour, some libcs e.g. glibc might just call free() which does accept null pointer but other libcs e.g. musl might not and instead cause the program to segfault. Therefore do not rely on undefined behaviour instead make it deterministic Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@xxxxxxxxx> --- support/export/client.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: nfs-utils-2.3.2/support/export/client.c =================================================================== --- nfs-utils-2.3.2.orig/support/export/client.c +++ nfs-utils-2.3.2/support/export/client.c @@ -309,7 +309,8 @@ client_lookup(char *hname, int canonical init_addrlist(clp, ai); out: - freeaddrinfo(ai); + if (ai) + freeaddrinfo(ai); return clp; }