From cbc4ed9afe9ba8f26ad722a8ad1bb783a1771a4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:59:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix aliasing to an non-existent element of %+ (by Yves Orton)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28995
---
 hv.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hv.c b/hv.c
index 1432077..e482d56 100644
--- a/hv.c
+++ b/hv.c
@@ -467,10 +467,8 @@ S_hv_fetch_common(pTHX_ HV *hv, SV *keysv, const char *key, STRLEN klen,
 		}
 		if (regdata) {
 		    sv = Perl_reg_named_buff_sv(aTHX_ keysv);
-		    if (!sv) {
-		        SvREFCNT_dec(keysv);
-		        return 0;
-		    }
+		    if (!sv)
+			sv = sv_newmortal();
 		} else {
 		    sv = sv_newmortal();
 		    mg_copy((SV*)hv, sv, (char *)keysv, HEf_SVKEY);
-- 
2.7.4