From 8713feb16dd6a472828bbdcf914a1c8f5c6810a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:22:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make sure that git_getpass() never returns NULL

The result of git_getpass() is used without checking for NULL, so let's
just die() instead of returning NULL.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 connect.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 3450cabd0e..57dc20c43c 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -631,8 +631,12 @@ char *git_getpass(const char *prompt)
 		askpass = askpass_program;
 	if (!askpass)
 		askpass = getenv("SSH_ASKPASS");
-	if (!askpass || !(*askpass))
-		return getpass(prompt);
+	if (!askpass || !(*askpass)) {
+		char *result = getpass(prompt);
+		if (!result)
+			die_errno("Could not read password");
+		return result;
+	}
 
 	args[0] = askpass;
 	args[1]	= prompt;
-- 
2.11.4.GIT