do not crash if keystate fails to load

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/exchange/taler-exchange-httpd_keystate.c b/src/exchange/taler-exchange-httpd_keystate.c
index ec565dac2..1390f95a3 100644
--- a/src/exchange/taler-exchange-httpd_keystate.c
+++ b/src/exchange/taler-exchange-httpd_keystate.c
@@ -1685,6 +1685,12 @@ TEH_KS_acquire_ (const char *location)
   {
     internal_key_state = make_fresh_key_state ();
     /* bump RC by 1 if we released internal_key_state above */
+    if (NULL == internal_key_state)
+    {
+      GNUNET_log (GNUNET_ERROR_TYPE_ERROR,
+		  "Failed to initialize key state\n");
+      return NULL;
+    }
     internal_key_state->refcnt += rcd;
   }
   key_state = internal_key_state;