From 5dad79ff34735c85742cfdd34aa31d3039bec838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Orestis Floros <orestisf1993@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 23:53:31 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent freeing of uninitialized pointer

> variable 'buf' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true

Note: freeing a NULL pointer is fine.
---
 src/tree.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tree.c b/src/tree.c
index b3d2ce93..7f466583 100644
--- a/src/tree.c
+++ b/src/tree.c
@@ -66,13 +66,13 @@ static Con *_create___i3(void) {
 bool tree_restore(const char *path, xcb_get_geometry_reply_t *geometry) {
     bool result = false;
     char *globbed = resolve_tilde(path);
+    char *buf = NULL;
 
     if (!path_exists(globbed)) {
         LOG("%s does not exist, not restoring tree\n", globbed);
         goto out;
     }
 
-    char *buf = NULL;
     ssize_t len;
     if ((len = slurp(globbed, &buf)) < 0) {
         /* slurp already logged an error. */
-- 
2.39.5