From afca8851319d15ae2631b331aa424102e76469ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhihong Yu <tedyu@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:23:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] HBASE-8856 Crash when attempting split with
 DelimitedKeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy (Robert Dyer)

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/trunk@1502094 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../hbase/regionserver/DelimitedKeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/DelimitedKeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/DelimitedKeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.java
index c0940edb356..6082c52a78e 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/DelimitedKeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/DelimitedKeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.java
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ public class DelimitedKeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy extends IncreasingToUpperBoundR
   @Override
   protected byte[] getSplitPoint() {
     byte[] splitPoint = super.getSplitPoint();
-    if (delimiter != null) {
+    if (splitPoint != null && delimiter != null) {
 
       //find the first occurrence of delimiter in split point
       int index = com.google.common.primitives.Bytes.indexOf(splitPoint, delimiter);