Ted Yu created HIVE-7997: ---------------------------- Summary: Potential null pointer reference in ObjectInspectorUtils#compareTypes() Key: HIVE-7997 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7997 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Ted Yu
{code} if (childFieldsList1 == null && childFieldsList2 == null) { return true; } if (childFieldsList1.size() != childFieldsList2.size()) { return false; } {code} If either childFieldsList1 or childFieldsList2 is null but not both, the second if statement would produce NPE. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)