diff --git a/winsup/utils/ChangeLog b/winsup/utils/ChangeLog
index 8bcad9b43..5878bebac 100644
--- a/winsup/utils/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/utils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-08-13  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* mount.cc (from_fstab): Fix potentially fatal typo.
+
 2010-08-11  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* mount.cc (do_mount): Don't treat "bind" mount as remote mount.
diff --git a/winsup/utils/mount.cc b/winsup/utils/mount.cc
index be6ad03d0..5e1b42d36 100644
--- a/winsup/utils/mount.cc
+++ b/winsup/utils/mount.cc
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ from_fstab (bool user)
   while (fgets (buf, 65536, fh))
     {
       char *c = strrchr (buf, '\n');
-      if (*c)
+      if (c)
       	*c = '\0';
       if (from_fstab_line (m, buf, user))
 	++m;