From 91acc061992ae99392334393b5ea961c67371af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ejurgensen <espenjurgensen@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2025 10:01:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [misc] Fix crash after pipe metadata parsing error from
 xml_free(NULL)

xml_free() should be a no-op when called with null

Closes #1940
---
 src/misc_xml.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/misc_xml.c b/src/misc_xml.c
index a98cc7c7..ac558982 100644
--- a/src/misc_xml.c
+++ b/src/misc_xml.c
@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ xml_from_file(const char *path)
 void
 xml_free(xml_node *top)
 {
+  if (!top || !top->doc)
+    return;
+
   xmlFreeDoc(top->doc);
 }