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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:25:28 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [3.15] gh-151763: Fix NULL dereference in `os._path_normpath()` under OOM (GH-151779... 
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[3.15] gh-151763: Fix NULL dereference in `os._path_normpath()` under OOM (GH-151779) (#152096)

(cherry picked from commit ce8b81fff4094bd0cfb0c57193135bfc904c0ca2)

Co-authored-by: Zain Nadeem <zainnadeemzainnadeem80@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index b58b2af3c5f8..ce8b6d3ff4c6 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -6145,6 +6145,9 @@ os__path_normpath_impl(PyObject *module, path_t *path)
     else {
         result = PyUnicode_FromWideChar(norm_path, norm_len);
     }
+    if (result == NULL) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
     if (PyBytes_Check(path->object)) {
         Py_SETREF(result, PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(result));
     }