This defect was found by the coccinelle script "unchecked-strdup.cocci".
It can be backported to all supported branches.
---
src/compression.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/compression.c b/src/compression.c
index a4464e09b..edf5553c1 100644
--- a/src/compression.c
+++ b/src/compression.c
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ int comp_append_type(struct comp_type **types, const char
*type)
return 1;
comp_type->name_len = strlen(type);
comp_type->name = strdup(type);
+ if (!comp_type->name)
+ return 1;
comp_type->next = *types;
*types = comp_type;
return 0;
--
2.46.0.windows.1
