From b05c97c3d239f86fe987e0a31a437c3b5f02f137 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "se.gorbunov" <se.gorbunov@gsi.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:04:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] CA: a protection for the null ptr
---
reco/L1/catools/CaToolsMaterialHelper.cxx | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/reco/L1/catools/CaToolsMaterialHelper.cxx b/reco/L1/catools/CaToolsMaterialHelper.cxx
index e2057b096c..4ca3b7fac1 100644
--- a/reco/L1/catools/CaToolsMaterialHelper.cxx
+++ b/reco/L1/catools/CaToolsMaterialHelper.cxx
@@ -206,7 +206,11 @@ L1Material MaterialHelper::GenerateMaterialMap(double zRef, double zMin, double
bool doContinue = 1;
for (int iStep = 0; doContinue; iStep++) {
- if (!node) { LOG(fatal) << "ca::tools::MaterialHelper: TGeoNavigator can not find the geo node"; }
+ if (!node) {
+ // may happen when tracing outside of the CBM volume -> produce a warning
+ LOG(warning) << "ca::tools::MaterialHelper: TGeoNavigator can not find the geo node";
+ break;
+ }
TGeoMedium* medium = node->GetMedium();
if (!medium) { LOG(fatal) << "ca::tools::MaterialHelper: TGeoNavigator can not find the geo medium"; }
--
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