Under certain rare circumstances, it appears that there can be be a
NULL-pointer deref when a user fiddles with terminal emeulation programs while
outpu is being sent to the console.  This patch checks for and avoids a
NULL-pointer deref.
Signed-off-by: NHollis Blanchard <hollisbl@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>