From 7a5961f2b1daa48229d3d5a1a2bc52e53d1b934e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stuart Morgan <smorgan@mythtv.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 22:13:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Silence coverity warning about possible null pointer
 dereference (false positive). Coverity 746813

---
 mythtv/libs/libmythui/xmlparsebase.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mythtv/libs/libmythui/xmlparsebase.cpp b/mythtv/libs/libmythui/xmlparsebase.cpp
index 632211142c1..dd3b18f4957 100644
--- a/mythtv/libs/libmythui/xmlparsebase.cpp
+++ b/mythtv/libs/libmythui/xmlparsebase.cpp
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ MythUIType *XMLParseBase::ParseUIType(
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    if (olduitype)
+    if (olduitype && parent)
     {
         if (typeid(*olduitype) != typeid(*uitype))
         {
@@ -540,7 +540,8 @@ MythUIType *XMLParseBase::ParseUIType(
             VERBOSE_XML(VB_GENERAL, LOG_ERR, filename, element,
                       QString("Type of new widget '%1' doesn't match old '%2'")
                         .arg(name).arg(inherits));
-            parent->DeleteChild(uitype);
+            if (parent)
+                parent->DeleteChild(uitype);
             return NULL;
         }
         else