From 25854e87a16ec546e7d7b19f27cd45ba881d7957 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarrod Johnson <jjohnson2@lenovo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 09:50:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] macdata can be a string, ignore that as well

---
 xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/ipmi.pm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/ipmi.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/ipmi.pm
index 53b869cce..670bf2abc 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/ipmi.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/ipmi.pm
@@ -4108,7 +4108,7 @@ sub parseboard {
         my $macdata   = $boardinf{extra}->[6]->{value};
         my $macstring = "1";
         my $macprefix;
-        while ($macdata and $macstring !~ /00:00:00:00:00:00/ and not ref $global_sessdata->{currmacs}) {
+        while ($macdata and ref $macdata and $macstring !~ /00:00:00:00:00:00/ and not ref $global_sessdata->{currmacs}) {
             my @currmac = splice @$macdata, 0, 6;
             unless ((scalar @currmac) == 6) {
                 last;