From 6a82e95988dc7dd9e90b1f835fbc5cea7d2bdb5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ales Ledvinka <aledvink@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:17:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 3600960 check the copy of password exists

---
 ipmitool/lib/ipmi_user.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ipmitool/lib/ipmi_user.c b/ipmitool/lib/ipmi_user.c
index 1df9627..d7ab00b 100644
--- a/ipmitool/lib/ipmi_user.c
+++ b/ipmitool/lib/ipmi_user.c
@@ -723,7 +723,11 @@ ipmi_user_main(struct ipmi_intf * intf, int argc, char ** argv)
 			else
 				password = argv[3];
 
-			if (strlen(password) > 20)
+			if (password == NULL) {
+				lprintf(LOG_ERR, "Unable to parse password argument.");
+				return -1;
+			}
+			else if (strlen(password) > 20)
 			{
 				lprintf(LOG_ERR, "Password is too long (> 20 bytes)");
 				return -1;