From abbb088d76b04be9f63fe273155a0bce9232e473 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Edward Capriolo <edlinuxguru@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:31:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] More null checking here

---
 .../com/google/code/gossip/manager/GossipManager.java     | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/code/gossip/manager/GossipManager.java b/src/main/java/com/google/code/gossip/manager/GossipManager.java
index f3ee91b..99aef68 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/code/gossip/manager/GossipManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/code/gossip/manager/GossipManager.java
@@ -188,8 +188,12 @@ public abstract class GossipManager extends Thread implements NotificationListen
   public void shutdown() {
     _gossipServiceRunning.set(false);
     _gossipThreadExecutor.shutdown();
-    passiveGossipThread.shutdown();
-    activeGossipThread.shutdown();
+    if (passiveGossipThread != null){
+      passiveGossipThread.shutdown();
+    }
+    if (activeGossipThread != null){
+      activeGossipThread.shutdown();
+    }
     try {
       boolean result = _gossipThreadExecutor.awaitTermination(1000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
       if (!result){