[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] raop: silence a Coverity complaint

Tanu Kaskinen tanuk at iki.fi
Fri Jul 28 01:07:49 UTC 2017


CID: 1398155
---
 src/modules/raop/raop-sink.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/modules/raop/raop-sink.c b/src/modules/raop/raop-sink.c
index e5d219e87..4d13927fc 100644
--- a/src/modules/raop/raop-sink.c
+++ b/src/modules/raop/raop-sink.c
@@ -391,6 +391,13 @@ static void thread_func(void *userdata) {
         if (!pa_raop_client_can_stream(u->raop))
             continue;
 
+        /* This assertion is meant to silence a complaint from Coverity about
+         * pollfd being possibly NULL when we access it later. That's a false
+         * positive, because we check pa_raop_client_can_stream() above, and if
+         * that returns true, it means that the connection is up, and when the
+         * connection is up, pollfd will be non-NULL. */
+        pa_assert(pollfd);
+
         if (u->memchunk.length <= 0) {
             if (u->memchunk.memblock)
                 pa_memblock_unref(u->memchunk.memblock);
-- 
2.13.2



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