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Financial-Times/aggregate-healthcheck: controller.go; 5 LoC

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Found a possible issue in [Financial-Times/aggregate-healthcheck](https://www.github.com/Financial-Times/aggregate-healthcheck) at [controller.go](https://github.com/Financial-Times/aggregate-healthcheck/blob/6c4e1665bd5ba400d7258653d339dea2f3c848bc/controller.go#L413-L417)

Below is the message reported by the analyzer for this snippet of code. Beware that the analyzer only reports the first issue it finds, so please do not limit your consideration to the contents of the below message.

> function call at line 415 passes reference to healthResult to third-party code

[Click here to see the code in its original context.](https://github.com/Financial-Times/aggregate-healthcheck/blob/6c4e1665bd5ba400d7258653d339dea2f3c848bc/controller.go#L413-L417)

Click here to show the 5 line(s) of Go which triggered the analyzer.

```go
for _, healthResult := range healthResults {
if mService, found := measuredServices[healthResult.Checks[0].Name]; found {
registry.updateCachedAndBufferedHealth(&mService, &healthResult)
}
}

```

Click here to show extra information the analyzer produced.

```
No path was found through the callgraph that could lead to a function which writes a pointer argument.

The following graphviz dot graph describes paths through the callgraph that could lead to a function which passes a pointer to third-party code:
digraph G {
"(updateCachedAndBufferedHealth, 2)" -> {}
}

```

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commit ID: 6c4e1665bd5ba400d7258653d339dea2f3c848bc

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