From ca60e0ea14d9e6ee3bbea63ed110caf270ed48a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abirdcfly <fp544037857@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 10:39:08 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix a possible panic because of taking the address of nil

Signed-off-by: Abirdcfly <fp544037857@gmail.com>

Kubernetes-commit: c8c2819a4d7327f33a143f65c6af2bff5ef49735
---
 tools/clientcmd/auth_loaders.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/clientcmd/auth_loaders.go b/tools/clientcmd/auth_loaders.go
index 0e412776..5153a95a 100644
--- a/tools/clientcmd/auth_loaders.go
+++ b/tools/clientcmd/auth_loaders.go
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ func (a *PromptingAuthLoader) LoadAuth(path string) (*clientauth.Info, error) {
 	// Prompt for user/pass and write a file if none exists.
 	if _, err := os.Stat(path); os.IsNotExist(err) {
 		authPtr, err := a.Prompt()
-		auth := *authPtr
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
+		auth := *authPtr
 		data, err := json.Marshal(auth)
 		if err != nil {
 			return &auth, err