bpo-38020: Fixes crash in os.readlink() on Windows (pythonGH-15663)

Author: zooba

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-03-11-47-37.bpo-38020.xFZ2j0.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fixes potential crash when calling :func:`os.readlink` (or indirectly
+through :func:`~os.path.realpath`) on a file that is not a supported link.

Modules/posixmodule.c

@@ -7818,7 +7818,7 @@ os_readlink_impl(PyObject *module, path_t *path, int dir_fd)
     HANDLE reparse_point_handle;
     char target_buffer[_Py_MAXIMUM_REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER_SIZE];
     _Py_REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER *rdb = (_Py_REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER *)target_buffer;
-    PyObject *result;
+    PyObject *result = NULL;
 
     /* First get a handle to the reparse point */
     Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
@@ -7872,7 +7872,7 @@ os_readlink_impl(PyObject *module, path_t *path, int dir_fd)
             name[1] = L'\\';
         }
         result = PyUnicode_FromWideChar(name, nameLen);
-        if (path->narrow) {
+        if (result && path->narrow) {
             Py_SETREF(result, PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(result));
         }
     }