Commit: patch 9.2.0166: Coverity warning for potential NULL dereference

[Christian Brabandt]

patch 9.2.0166: Coverity warning for potential NULL dereference

Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/84c7a5d18fbce19291d08f8e26d78110fbc283e4
Author: Christian Brabandt <c...@256bit.org>
Date: Sat Mar 14 17:27:47 2026 +0000

patch 9.2.0166: Coverity warning for potential NULL dereference

Problem: Coverity warning for potential NULL dereference in channel.c
(after v9.2.0153)
Solution: Use empty string in case hostname is NULL.

CID: 1686330

related: #19676

Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <c...@256bit.org>

diff --git a/src/channel.c b/src/channel.c
index 78a462cc9..f35cbf8ea 100644
--- a/src/channel.c
+++ b/src/channel.c
@@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ channel_listen(
channel->ch_listen = TRUE;
channel->CH_SOCK_FD = (sock_T)sd;
channel->ch_nb_close_cb = nb_close_cb;
- channel->ch_hostname = (char *)vim_strsave((char_u *)hostname);
+ channel->ch_hostname = (char *)vim_strsave((char_u *)(hostname != NULL ? hostname : ""));
channel->ch_port = port_in;
channel->ch_to_be_closed |= (1U << PART_SOCK);

diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index b3d68918b..ddf2d64bd 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 */
+/**/
+ 166,
/**/
165,
/**/