From 2e80174b4aa0b983c193453b1062677a0d28188c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Forster <octo@collectd.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:47:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] write_http plugin: Sanity check arguments to
 wh_write_command().

Issue: #1835
---
 src/write_http.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/write_http.c b/src/write_http.c
index 95132cf9..41615d3f 100644
--- a/src/write_http.c
+++ b/src/write_http.c
@@ -362,7 +362,11 @@ static int wh_write_command (const data_set_t *ds, const value_list_t *vl, /* {{
 
         int status;
 
-        if (0 != strcmp (ds->type, vl->type)) {
+        /* sanity checks, primarily to make static analyzers happy. */
+        if ((cb == NULL) || (cb->send_buffer == NULL))
+                return -1;
+
+        if (strcmp (ds->type, vl->type) == 0) {
                 ERROR ("write_http plugin: DS type does not match "
                                 "value list type");
                 return -1;
-- 
2.11.0