This error type is only reported in Objective-C. This is similar to Null dereference, but Infer hasn't found a whole trace where the error can happen, but only found that a null dereference can happen if an instance variable of a parameter is `nil`. For example: ```objectivec -(int) foo { B b* = [self->_a foo]; // sending a message with receiver nil returns nil return b->x; // dereferencing b, potential NPE if you pass nil as the argument a. } ``` Possible solutions are adding a check for `nil`, or making sure that the method is not called with `nil`.