From 80054d1971512901d52e96f387364b87dbdc4ec4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Stenger <christian.stenger@qt.io>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:47:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Utils: Do not try to parse empty files

Change-Id: I204a20bf1fee3b1163f841de0e98c4da86c9a943
Reviewed-by: Eike Ziller <eike.ziller@qt.io>
---
 src/libs/utils/persistentsettings.cpp | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libs/utils/persistentsettings.cpp b/src/libs/utils/persistentsettings.cpp
index 22f0e87bd2c..4644a51be6c 100644
--- a/src/libs/utils/persistentsettings.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/utils/persistentsettings.cpp
@@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ bool PersistentSettingsReader::load(const FilePath &fileName)
     m_valueMap.clear();
 
     QFile file(fileName.toString());
+    if (file.size() == 0) // skip empty files
+        return false;
+
     if (!file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly|QIODevice::Text))
         return false;
     ParseContext ctx;