[Freeipmi-devel] ipmi-sensors abends when configuration file not specified at all

[Dan Lukes]

Hi.

I hit the bug in the

ipmi-sensors/src/ipmi-sensors-argp.c

In the case the configuration file is not specified at all, the

cmd_args->common.config_file == NULL

Such situation is not handled correctly, the NULL is dereferenced and 
program abends.

I suggest not to call  config_file_parse() at all, when configration 
doesn't exist, e.g.:

if (config_file_parse (cmd_args->common.config_file,

should be changed to

if (cmd_args->common.config_file != NULL && config_file_parse 
(cmd_args->common.config_file,

I tried it on my system and it helped.

As alternative, such case can be handled inside of config_file_parse() 
function.

Hope it help.

Dan