Cleanup and sanity-checking of before/after null-check and copy+paste errors (Coverit...

[palacios.git] / palacios / src / palacios / vmm_xml.c

diff --git a/palacios/src/palacios/vmm_xml.c b/palacios/src/palacios/vmm_xml.c
index 755ed59..c2213ca 100644 (file)
--- a/palacios/src/palacios/vmm_xml.c
+++ b/palacios/src/palacios/vmm_xml.c
@@ -516,6 +516,10 @@ static struct v3_xml * parse_str(char * buf, size_t len) {
     char ** attr; 
     int attr_idx;
 
+    if (!buf) {
+       return NULL;
+    }
+
     root->str_ptr = buf;
 
     if (len == 0) {