fixes identified by coverity

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/rrdhost.c b/src/rrdhost.c
index 7002c48234..c5bc6bd778 100644
--- a/src/rrdhost.c
+++ b/src/rrdhost.c
@@ -409,6 +409,10 @@ void rrdhost_free(RRDHOST *host) {
     info("Freeing all memory for host '%s'...", host->hostname);
 
     rrd_check_wrlock();     // make sure the RRDs are write locked
+
+    // stop a possibly running thread
+    rrdpush_sender_thread_stop(host);
+
     rrdhost_wrlock(host);   // lock this RRDHOST
 
     // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -447,8 +451,6 @@ void rrdhost_free(RRDHOST *host) {
     // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     // free it
 
-    rrdpush_sender_thread_stop(host);
-
     freez(host->os);
     freez(host->cache_dir);
     freez(host->varlib_dir);