[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFCORE-2517) Coverity, Dereference after null check (Elytron subsystem)

[Ilia Vassilev (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-2517?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Ilia Vassilev reassigned WFCORE-2517:
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    Assignee: Ilia Vassilev  (was: Darran Lofthouse)


> Coverity, Dereference after null check (Elytron subsystem)
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WFCORE-2517
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-2517
>             Project: WildFly Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Security
>            Reporter: Martin Choma
>            Assignee: Ilia Vassilev
>
> Coverity found possible dereference of null. In this code {{defaultPolicy}} is checked for null and in next step {{defaultPolicy.equals()}} is called.
> https://scan7.coverity.com/reports.htm#v23632/p12663/fileInstanceId=10578397&defectInstanceId=2572005&mergedDefectId=1407435
> {code:java|title=PolicyParser.java}
>         boolean providerFound = defaultPolicy == null;
>         while (reader.hasNext() && reader.nextTag() != END_ELEMENT) {
>             verifyNamespace(reader);
>             String localName = reader.getLocalName();
>             switch (localName) {
>                 // Permission Mapper
>                 case JACC_POLICY:
>                     providerFound = defaultPolicy.equals(parseJaccPolicy(addPolicy, reader, operations)) || providerFound;
>                     break;
>                 case CUSTOM_POLICY:
>                     providerFound = defaultPolicy.equals(parseCustomPolicy(addPolicy, reader, operations)) || providerFound;
>                     break;
>                 default:
>                     throw unexpectedElement(reader);
>             }
>         }
> {code}



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