From 62d7050af9b108868fae9844d856b94cc4fd13f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Woolsey <gwoolsey@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:18:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add null check

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@1783914 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../org/apache/poi/ss/formula/DataValidationEvaluator.java     | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/formula/DataValidationEvaluator.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/formula/DataValidationEvaluator.java
index 7e49caad7..709a80573 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/formula/DataValidationEvaluator.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/formula/DataValidationEvaluator.java
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ public class DataValidationEvaluator {
      *         validation applies
      */
     public DataValidation getValidationForCell(CellReference cell) {
-        return getValidationContextForCell(cell).getValidation();
+        final DataValidationContext vc = getValidationContextForCell(cell);
+        return vc == null ? null : vc.getValidation();
     }
 
     public DataValidationContext getValidationContextForCell(CellReference cell) {