From: Liam Merwick <liam.merw...@oracle.com> The dev_id returned by the call to blk_get_attached_dev_id() in blk_root_get_parent_desc() can be NULL (an internal call to object_get_canonical_path may have returned NULL).
Instead of just checking this case before before dereferencing, adjust blk_get_attached_dev_id() to return the empty string if no object path can be found (similar to the case when blk->dev is NULL and an empty string is returned). Signed-off-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merw...@oracle.com> Message-id: 1541453919-25973-3-git-send-email-liam.merw...@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> --- block/block-backend.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/block-backend.c b/block/block-backend.c index 2a8f3b55f8..60d37a0c3d 100644 --- a/block/block-backend.c +++ b/block/block-backend.c @@ -918,7 +918,8 @@ char *blk_get_attached_dev_id(BlockBackend *blk) } else if (dev->id) { return g_strdup(dev->id); } - return object_get_canonical_path(OBJECT(dev)); + + return object_get_canonical_path(OBJECT(dev)) ?: g_strdup(""); } /* -- 2.19.1