Commit 912c6b22fc622cd7c7d29c7f8eaeb816b266daac added abort() when the
'val' parameter is NULL along with setting the error variable for the
command. We don't want to abort in this case, just set the error.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>