From: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:29:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: patch 9.2.0714: Coverity warns for NULL deref
X-Git-Tag: v9.2.0714^0
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=19ab872a905e0f6f2a9df3aa008459f286dc4e5c;p=thirdparty%2Fvim.git

patch 9.2.0714: Coverity warns for NULL deref

Problem:  Coverity warns for NULL dereference in f_remote_startserver()
Solution: Return early if the server name is null.

related: #20624

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

diff --git a/src/clientserver.c b/src/clientserver.c
index 5b0d4a2df9..60849fe1e1 100644
--- a/src/clientserver.c
+++ b/src/clientserver.c
@@ -1176,6 +1176,8 @@ f_remote_startserver(typval_T *argvars UNUSED, typval_T *rettv UNUSED)
     }
 
     char_u *server = tv_get_string_chk(&argvars[0]);
+    if (server == NULL)
+	return;
 #  ifdef MSWIN
     if (clientserver_method == CLIENTSERVER_METHOD_MSWIN)
 	serverSetName(server);
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index 02d7bc410e..5a42a1ef14 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -759,6 +759,8 @@ static char *(features[]) =
 
 static int included_patches[] =
 {   /* Add new patch number below this line */
+/**/
+    714,
 /**/
     713,
 /**/