From 33d1dda954b68b88d563620d8e2d585c1a42fba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nik Bougalis <nikb@bougalis.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:19:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Handle BIGNUM conversion failure

---
 src/ripple/data/crypto/CKeyDeterministic.cpp | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ripple/data/crypto/CKeyDeterministic.cpp b/src/ripple/data/crypto/CKeyDeterministic.cpp
index 2b657758d3..1ce6eabf4a 100644
--- a/src/ripple/data/crypto/CKeyDeterministic.cpp
+++ b/src/ripple/data/crypto/CKeyDeterministic.cpp
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ uint128 CKey::PassPhraseToKey (std::string const& passPhrase)
 
 // --> seed
 // <-- private root generator + public root generator
-EC_KEY* CKey::GenerateRootDeterministicKey (const uint128& seed)
+EC_KEY* CKey::GenerateRootDeterministicKey (uint128 const& seed)
 {
     BN_CTX* ctx = BN_CTX_new ();
 
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ EC_KEY* CKey::GenerateRootDeterministicKey (const uint128& seed)
             EC_KEY_free (pkey);
             BN_free (order);
             BN_CTX_free (ctx);
+            return nullptr;
         }
 
         root.zero ();