Setting Address in QHostAddress

[dwilliams]

I'm creating a simple object to send UDP packets to statsd. I'm getting a segsegv on the writeDataGram line.

#include <qsettings.h>
#include <QDebug>
#include <QtNetwork/QHostAddress>
#include "statsd.h"

Statsd::Statsd(QObject *parent) : QObject(parent)
{
    setSocketValues("SomeUnusedOrg", "ToForceDefaults");
    qDebug() << "Statsd target set to -- port: " << _targetPort <<  " IP: " << _targetIP << endl;
}

Statsd::Statsd(QByteArray organization, QByteArray application, QObject *parent) : QObject(parent)
{
    setSocketValues(organization, application);
    _socket = new QUdpSocket(this);
    _socket->bind(QHostAddress::LocalHost, _bindPort);
    qDebug() << "Statsd target set to -- port: " << _targetPort <<  " IP: " << _targetIP << endl;
}

Statsd::~Statsd()
{
    if (_socket != nullptr)
        _socket->deleteLater();

}

void Statsd::setSocketValues(QByteArray organization, QByteArray application) {
    QSettings qs(organization, application);
    _targetPort = qs.value("statsdport", 8125).toUInt();
    _targetIP = qs.value("statsdip", "127.0.0.1").toByteArray();
    _bindPort = qs.value("statsdbindport", 2000).toUInt();
}

qint64 Statsd::sendUDP(QByteArray &data)
{
    QHostAddress address;
    qint64 rv;
    if (address.setAddress(_targetIP.data()))
      #segsegv on the next line.
      rv = _socket->writeDatagram(data.data(), data.length(), address, _targetPort);
    else {
      qWarning() << "Error sending statsd udp packet" << endl;
      rv=-1;
    }
    return rv;
}

Do you see what might be wrong with this?
I'm using 127.0.0.1 as the address to use. I realize that there is a QHostAddress::LocalHost, but I want to write this generically so any IPv4 address would work.

[VRonin]

the constructor with signature Statsd::Statsd(QObject*) does not allocate _socket so it's likely it's a dangling pointer causing sigsev

[dwilliams]

Doh! That was it. Too much time looking at the code I couldn't see it. Thanks.