From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:17:56 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: sd-json: allow sd_json_dispatch() accept NULL pointers and treat them like empty... 
X-Git-Tag: v259-rc1~521^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F38980%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

sd-json: allow sd_json_dispatch() accept NULL pointers and treat them like empty objects
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diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-json/sd-json.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-json/sd-json.c
index 182a85ae7ff..77f7524d2a1 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-json/sd-json.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-json/sd-json.c
@@ -5096,6 +5096,10 @@ _public_ int sd_json_dispatch_full(
         int r, done = 0;
         bool *found;
 
+        /* Consider a NULL pointer equivalent to an empty object */
+        if (!v)
+                v = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_OBJECT;
+
         if (!sd_json_variant_is_object(v)) {
                 json_log(v, flags, 0, "JSON variant is not an object.");