From cdf38caa72a0fe18819882b9c30cde8f816620fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhou Hao <zhouhao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:35:28 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] validate: fix nil deference

Signed-off-by: Zhou Hao <zhouhao@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 validate/validate.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/validate/validate.go b/validate/validate.go
index 0914bc691..fd24b8e0d 100644
--- a/validate/validate.go
+++ b/validate/validate.go
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ func (v *Validator) CheckProcess() (errs error) {
 				fmt.Errorf("args must not be empty"),
 				rspec.Version))
 	} else {
-		if filepath.IsAbs(process.Args[0]) {
+		if filepath.IsAbs(process.Args[0]) && v.spec.Root != nil {
 			var rootfsPath string
 			if filepath.IsAbs(v.spec.Root.Path) {
 				rootfsPath = v.spec.Root.Path