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Coverity analysis defect 76371: Dereference null return value

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    • 1.3.0-beta0
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      Return value of function which returns null is dereferenced without checking

      Defect 76371 (STATIC_C)
      Checker NULL_RETURNS (subcategory none)
      File: /src/mongoc/mongoc-collection.c
      Function mongoc_collection_create_index
      /src/mongoc/mongoc-collection.c, line: 821
      Assigning: "alloc_name" = null return value from "mongoc_collection_keys_to_index_string".

                alloc_name = mongoc_collection_keys_to_index_string (keys);

      /src/mongoc/mongoc-collection.c, line: 822
      Assigning: "name" = "alloc_name". Both pointers are now null.

                name = alloc_name;

      /src/mongoc/mongoc-collection.c, line: 832
      Dereferencing a pointer that might be null "name" when calling "strlen".

             BSON_APPEND_UTF8 (&doc, "name", name);

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            bjori Hannes Magnusson
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