to see if the initialization failed - i.e., that the fopen() call in line 6 returned a non-NULL
value. As a result, a NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) can occur in line 7.
Assuming that the fopen() succeeds, the code sends the contents of the file in the while
loop in lines 7 and 9. However, it does not release the handle before it returns in line