In case if something is broken in the kernel and
we get a format corrupted -- simply exit out with
error instead of strlen'ing nil string.

Also while at it -- add a comment about format.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>