2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 428606415..de13da65d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
      [scp.c sftp.c]
      IPv6 support for sftp (which I bungled in my last patch) which is
      borrowed from scp.c.  Thanks to Markus@ for pointing it out.
+   - deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2001/04/16 08:05:34
+     [xmalloc.c]
+     xrealloc dealing with ptr == nULL; mouring
 
 20010415
  - OpenBSD CVS Sync
@@ -5112,4 +5115,4 @@
  - Wrote replacements for strlcpy and mkdtemp
  - Released 1.0pre1
 
-$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1125 2001/04/16 08:26:41 djm Exp $
+$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1126 2001/04/16 08:27:07 djm Exp $
diff --git a/xmalloc.c b/xmalloc.c
index 8a23b8b70..504662749 100644
--- a/xmalloc.c
+++ b/xmalloc.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  */
 
 #include "includes.h"
-RCSID("$OpenBSD: xmalloc.c,v 1.14 2001/02/07 18:04:50 itojun Exp $");
+RCSID("$OpenBSD: xmalloc.c,v 1.15 2001/04/16 08:05:34 deraadt Exp $");
 
 #include "xmalloc.h"
 #include "log.h"
@@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t new_size)
         if (new_size == 0)
                 fatal("xrealloc: zero size");
         if (ptr == NULL)
-                fatal("xrealloc: NULL pointer given as argument");
-        new_ptr = realloc(ptr, new_size);
+                new_ptr = malloc(new_size);
+        else
+                new_ptr = realloc(ptr, new_size);
         if (new_ptr == NULL)
                 fatal("xrealloc: out of memory (new_size %lu bytes)", (u_long) new_size);
         return new_ptr;