The result of converting the IP address of the broker wasn't checked. As a result, the pointer was left uninitialised and the IPv6 address used for connecting was some random data. The function now returns an error. Before connect_to_broker is called, mqtt_register is executed, which memsets conn to 0, making its state 0 (MQTT_CONN_STATE_ERROR). In order to recover from this error state, the extra check was added in the MQTT_CLIENT_STATE_NEWCONFIG state.
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