From d6f7a3e126175f2a878423a1af5eae1afd51f11c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mar <mar>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 17:21:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] dereference NULL bug

---
 reg_svr/requests.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/reg_svr/requests.c b/reg_svr/requests.c
index c45642ae..98ec3289 100644
--- a/reg_svr/requests.c
+++ b/reg_svr/requests.c
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ int format_pkt(packet, pktlenp, seqno, cl_status, message)
     /* Find out how much of the message to copy; truncate if too short. */
     /* How much room is there left? */
     len = *pktlenp - sizeof(U_32BIT)*3;
+    if (message == NULL) message = "";
     if (len < strlen(message) + 1) /* Room for null terminator */
     {
 	status = FAILURE;	/* Message was truncated */
-- 
2.45.2