Merge pull request #2424

28b72b6e tx_pool: pre-init tvc.m_verifivation_failed before processing (moneromooo-monero)
50a629b2 core_tests: catch (impossible in practice) tx extra api failure (moneromooo-monero)
fee15ef1 wallet2: catch failure to parse address (moneromooo-monero)
1399e26d net_peerlist: remove dead code (moneromooo-monero)
50e09698 tx_pool: guard against failure getting tx hash (moneromooo-monero)
54cc209a wallet_rpc_server: catch failure to create directory (moneromooo-monero)
3e55099c wallet_rpc_server: init m_vm to NULL in ctor (moneromooo-monero)
7d0dde5e wallet_args: remove redundant default value for --log-file (moneromooo-monero)
ed4a3350 wallet2: catch failure to save keys file (moneromooo-monero)
44434c8a wallet2_api: check whether dynamic_cast returns NULL (moneromooo-monero)
92f2f687 core: check return value from parse_hexstr_to_binbuff (moneromooo-monero)
5475692e wallet2_api: remove an unused, uninitialized, field (moneromooo-monero)
a7ba3de1 libwallet_api_tests: initialize newblock_triggered on reset (moneromooo-monero)
b2763ace wallet2_api: init error code to "no error" in the ctor (moneromooo-monero)
b5faac53 get_blockchain_top now returns void (moneromooo-monero)
2e44d8f2 wallet_rpc_server: guard against exceptions (moneromooo-monero)
4230876b simplewallet: guard against I/O exceptions (moneromooo-monero)
06c1e057 daemon: initialize decode_as_json in RPC request (moneromooo-monero)
11f71af5 http_base: init size_t in http_request_info ctor (moneromooo-monero)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/cryptonote_core/cryptonote_tx_utils.cpp b/src/cryptonote_core/cryptonote_tx_utils.cpp
index 9b442029a..d2a7eedf5 100644
--- a/src/cryptonote_core/cryptonote_tx_utils.cpp
+++ b/src/cryptonote_core/cryptonote_tx_utils.cpp
@@ -510,8 +510,9 @@ namespace cryptonote
     std::string genesis_coinbase_tx_hex = config::GENESIS_TX;
 
     blobdata tx_bl;
-    string_tools::parse_hexstr_to_binbuff(genesis_coinbase_tx_hex, tx_bl);
-    bool r = parse_and_validate_tx_from_blob(tx_bl, bl.miner_tx);
+    bool r = string_tools::parse_hexstr_to_binbuff(genesis_coinbase_tx_hex, tx_bl);
+    CHECK_AND_ASSERT_MES(r, false, "failed to parse coinbase tx from hard coded blob");
+    r = parse_and_validate_tx_from_blob(tx_bl, bl.miner_tx);
     CHECK_AND_ASSERT_MES(r, false, "failed to parse coinbase tx from hard coded blob");
     bl.major_version = CURRENT_BLOCK_MAJOR_VERSION;
     bl.minor_version = CURRENT_BLOCK_MINOR_VERSION;