1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/fs/gnunet-publish.c b/src/fs/gnunet-publish.c
index 3a4f089a7..809c48be2 100644
--- a/src/fs/gnunet-publish.c
+++ b/src/fs/gnunet-publish.c
@@ -545,6 +545,8 @@ run (void *cls,
     }
   else
     {
+      if (meta == NULL)
+        meta = GNUNET_CONTAINER_meta_data_create ();
       GNUNET_FS_meta_data_extract_from_file (meta,
                                              args[0],
                                              l);