nuageinit: add nil/empty guard to decode_base64()

Return an empty string when input is nil or zero-length instead
of processing it through the decoding loop.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libexec/nuageinit/nuage.lua b/libexec/nuageinit/nuage.lua
index 839cf3588021..4f25e79ccefc 100644
--- a/libexec/nuageinit/nuage.lua
+++ b/libexec/nuageinit/nuage.lua
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ local function getlocalbase()
 end
 
 local function decode_base64(input)
+	if input == nil or #input == 0 then
+		return ""
+	end
 	local b = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/'
 	input = string.gsub(input, '[^'..b..'=]', '')