Fix possible null pointer dereference (coverity-1026784).

diff --git a/src/framework/mlt_animation.c b/src/framework/mlt_animation.c
index e53fdcaa4497e1648bb543ebd7238d7a1d3e3521..5928b0d3cb1bded514866cb1254cf8eb1650ecea 100644 (file)
--- a/src/framework/mlt_animation.c
+++ b/src/framework/mlt_animation.c
@@ -693,8 +693,9 @@ char *mlt_animation_serialize( mlt_animation self )
                if ( self->data )
                        free( self->data );
                self->data = ret;
+               ret = strdup( ret );
        }
-       return strdup( ret );
+       return ret;
 }
 
 /** Close the animation and deallocate all of its resources.