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Ted Yu commented on HIVE-7863: ------------------------------ Same pattern appears in cleanDb() as well. > Potential null reference in TxnDbUtil#prepareDb() > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-7863 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7863 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Ted Yu > Priority: Minor > > Here is related code: > {code} > Connection conn = null; > boolean committed = false; > try { > conn = getConnection(); > ... > } finally { > if (!committed) conn.rollback(); > conn.close(); > } > {code} > If getConnection() throws exception, conn.rollback() would be called - > leading to NPE. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)