coverity#1326217 Explicit null dereferenced

Change-Id: Id1c35c5022eddfd1d7bca88c4833a0cba01b9cfa

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/qadevOOo/runner/helper/APIDescGetter.java b/qadevOOo/runner/helper/APIDescGetter.java
index 0320fb581bf6..217e241b34fd 100644
--- a/qadevOOo/runner/helper/APIDescGetter.java
+++ b/qadevOOo/runner/helper/APIDescGetter.java
@@ -361,11 +361,14 @@ public class APIDescGetter extends DescGetter
             {
                 parent.hasErrorMsg = true;
                 parent.ErrorMsg = "IOException while reading the description";
-
-                return null;
+                break;
             }
         }
 
+        if (ifcDesc == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
         ifcDesc.SubEntries = getDescArray(meth_names.toArray());
         ifcDesc.SubEntryCount = meth_names.size();