I don't think the NULL case is possible here, but let's make Coverity happy.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gpsd.c b/gpsd.c
index 3a7f0bd0..09cdd639 100644
--- a/gpsd.c
+++ b/gpsd.c
@@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ static void handle_request(struct subscriber_t *sub,
 		    /* user specified a path, try to assign it */
 		    device = find_device(devconf.path);
 		    /* do not optimize away, we need 'device' later on! */
-		    if (!awaken(device)) {
+		    if (device == NULL || !awaken(device)) {
 			(void)snprintf(reply, replylen,
 				       "{\"class\":\"ERROR\",\"message\":\"Can't open %s.\"}\r\n",
 				       devconf.path);