Quoth Justus Winter on Sep 21 at 2:50 pm:
> GMIME_IS_MULTIPART and GMIME_IS_MESSAGE both handle NULL pointers
> gracefully, but the G_OBJECT_TYPE used in the error handling block
> dereferences it without checking it first.
>
> Fix this by checking whether parent->part is valid.
>
> Found using the clang static analyzer.
Neat.
Can this actually happen, though? If so, I think this point is too
late to be checking for a NULL part field. It should probably be
checked when the mime_node_t is created so that mime_node_t never has
a NULL part field.
> Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
> ---
> mime-node.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mime-node.c b/mime-node.c
> index 97e8b48..839737a 100644
> --- a/mime-node.c
> +++ b/mime-node.c
> @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ mime_node_child (mime_node_t *parent, int child)
> GMimeObject *sub;
> mime_node_t *node;
>
> - if (!parent || child < 0 || child >= parent->nchildren)
> + if (!parent || !parent->part || child < 0 || child >= parent->nchildren)
> return NULL;
>
> if (GMIME_IS_MULTIPART (parent->part)) {
