AOnlineBeaconClient::NotifyControlMessage Crash

I’m currently getting a crash with AOnlineBeaconClient when NetDriver is not valid.

  1. I host a listen server
  2. I launch a client that then pings the listen server.
  3. If I close the listen server sometime after, the client crashes.
  4. The debug has an exception thrown at line 306 of OnlineBeaconClient.cpp

This does not happen if I close a dedicated server which leads me to believe that things are handled differently with them.

Is there anything specific I should do when shutting down a listen server to prevent it from crashing all servers that connected (but called DestroyBeacon())?

It seems when I close the listen server, the client has AOnlineBeaconClient::OnFailure() called before AOnlineBeaconClient::NotifyControlMessage is called.

This leads to NetDriver being set to null. Because NotifyControlMessage does not validate the pointer, it results in a hard crash.

I still need to figure out why a listen server causes this to happen.

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