From 4e61db228496a1ef1b81773d41116ebb659cebe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 00:06:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add an extra sanity check in parse_mode  -Erik

---
 utility.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utility.c b/utility.c
index 911d84eaf..c8bd5737a 100644
--- a/utility.c
+++ b/utility.c
@@ -743,6 +743,9 @@ extern int parse_mode(const char *s, mode_t * theMode)
 	char type;
 	char c;
 
+	if (s==NULL)
+		return (FALSE);
+
 	do {
 		for (;;) {
 			switch (c = *s++) {