From 0973bbd7336593d9638bc185a41ae3cd5f77b32b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?No=C3=A9mi=20V=C3=A1nyi?= <kvch@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:44:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Eliminate panic due to nil pointer dereference (#20095)

---
 journalbeat/reader/journal.go | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/journalbeat/reader/journal.go b/journalbeat/reader/journal.go
index fb5b91c5019a..6b3136d65c66 100644
--- a/journalbeat/reader/journal.go
+++ b/journalbeat/reader/journal.go
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ func newReader(path string, c Config, done chan struct{}, state checkpoint.Journ
 	instance.AddJournalToMonitor(c.Path, journal)
 
 	return &Reader{
+		r:       r,
 		journal: journal,
 		config:  c,
 		done:    done,