From f598857a83b234db6e39b81d47580bd8ffdb3119 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Long <jeremy.long@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 08:01:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] object will never be null (coverity scan)

---
 .../dependencycheck/analyzer/AbstractSuppressionAnalyzer.java | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/analyzer/AbstractSuppressionAnalyzer.java b/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/analyzer/AbstractSuppressionAnalyzer.java
index c897d852e..4598191da 100644
--- a/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/analyzer/AbstractSuppressionAnalyzer.java
+++ b/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/analyzer/AbstractSuppressionAnalyzer.java
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractSuppressionAnalyzer extends AbstractAnalyzer {
      */
     @Override
     public synchronized void prepareAnalyzer(Engine engine) throws InitializationException {
-        if (rules == null || rules.isEmpty()) {
+        if (rules.isEmpty()) {
             try {
                 loadSuppressionBaseData();
             } catch (SuppressionParseException ex) {
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractSuppressionAnalyzer extends AbstractAnalyzer {
 
     @Override
     protected void analyzeDependency(Dependency dependency, Engine engine) throws AnalysisException {
-        if (rules == null || rules.isEmpty()) {
+        if (rules.isEmpty()) {
             return;
         }
         for (final SuppressionRule rule : rules) {