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-rw-r--r--src/vpp-api/client/stat_client.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/vpp-api/client/stat_client.c b/src/vpp-api/client/stat_client.c
index 5bb6e9f1e56..5bee21a2cfc 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/client/stat_client.c
+++ b/src/vpp-api/client/stat_client.c
@@ -411,6 +411,15 @@ stat_segment_dump_r (uint32_t * stats, stat_client_main_t * sm)
if (stat_segment_access_start (&sa, sm))
return 0;
+ /* preallocate the elements.
+ * This takes care of a special case where
+ * the vec_len(stats) == 0,
+ * such that we return a vector of
+ * length 0, rather than a null pointer
+ * (since null pointer is an error)
+ */
+ vec_alloc (res, vec_len (stats));
+
for (i = 0; i < vec_len (stats); i++)
{
/* Collect counter */