patch 9.1.1975: blob2str() may call STRNCPY() with a NULL pointer

Commit: 
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/3d06113c8c9628a478b0cf6c85248ff6ec5fac3a
Author: Foxe Chen <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Dec 12 08:52:07 2025 +0100

    patch 9.1.1975: blob2str() may call STRNCPY() with a NULL pointer
    
    Problem:  blob2str() may call strcpy with a NULL pointer
    Solution: Check for NULL before calling STRNCPY()
    
    closes: #18907
    
    Signed-off-by: Foxe Chen <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <[email protected]>

diff --git a/src/strings.c b/src/strings.c
index 8bcd38a8f..228cff242 100644
--- a/src/strings.c
+++ b/src/strings.c
@@ -1242,6 +1242,7 @@ string_from_blob(blob_T *blob, long *start_idx)
     garray_T   str_ga;
     long       blen;
     int                idx;
+    char_u     *ret_str = NULL;
 
     ga_init2(&str_ga, sizeof(char), 80);
 
@@ -1262,7 +1263,8 @@ string_from_blob(blob_T *blob, long *start_idx)
        ga_append(&str_ga, byte);
     }
 
-    char_u *ret_str = vim_strnsave(str_ga.ga_data, str_ga.ga_len);
+    if (str_ga.ga_data != NULL)
+       ret_str = vim_strnsave(str_ga.ga_data, str_ga.ga_len);
     *start_idx = idx;
 
     ga_clear(&str_ga);
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index a461d58c9..467629519 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -734,6 +734,8 @@ static char *(features[]) =
 
 static int included_patches[] =
 {   /* Add new patch number below this line */
+/**/
+    1975,
 /**/
     1974,
 /**/

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