as reported by George Boudreau, make sure we properly skip blank lines

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/util-linux/mdev.c b/util-linux/mdev.c
index 84d5e1c0e..65b4da4f4 100644
--- a/util-linux/mdev.c
+++ b/util-linux/mdev.c
@@ -78,8 +78,12 @@ static void make_device(char *path, int delete)
                                         val = strtok(vline, " \t");
                                         vline = NULL;
                                 } while (val && !*val);
-                                if (!val)
-                                        break;
+                                if (!val) {
+                                        if (field)
+                                                break;
+                                        else
+                                                goto next_line;
+                                }
 
                                 if (field == 0) {