BUG/MEDIUM: stats-file: fix shm-stats-file preload not working anymore
Due to recent commit
5c299dee ("MEDIUM: stats: consider that shared stats
pointers may be NULL") shm-stats-file preloading suddenly stopped working
In fact preloading should be considered as an initializing step so the
counters may be assigned there without checking for NULL first.
Indeed there are supposed to be NULL because preloading occurs before
counters_{fe,be}_shared_prepare() which takes care of setting the pointers
for counters if they weren't set before.
Obviously this corner-case was overlooked during
5c299dee writing and
testing. Thanks to Nick Ramirez for having reported the issue.
No backport needed, this issue is specific to 3.3.