From 495f1f9741151d37c4f5630dccd967f45e5df423 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilia Shipitsin <chipitsine@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 21:59:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] BUG/MINOR: checks: handle a possible strdup() failure

This defect was found by the coccinelle script "unchecked-strdup.cocci".
It can be backported to all supported branches.
---
 src/check.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/check.c b/src/check.c
index 29a86b7dd..dde1e72b0 100644
--- a/src/check.c
+++ b/src/check.c
@@ -1667,6 +1667,10 @@ static int start_checks()
 	/* 0- init the dummy frontend used to create all checks sessions */
 	init_new_proxy(&checks_fe);
 	checks_fe.id = strdup("CHECKS-FE");
+	if (!checks_fe.id) {
+		ha_alert("Out of memory creating the checks frontend.\n");
+		return ERR_ALERT | ERR_FATAL;
+	}
 	checks_fe.cap = PR_CAP_FE | PR_CAP_BE;
         checks_fe.mode = PR_MODE_TCP;
 	checks_fe.maxconn = 0;