--- /dev/null
+commit c1e172c2e14ef059dac632f7c67f081dfecd30dc
+Author: Simon Thelen <ffmpeg-dev@c-14.de>
+Date: Tue Apr 3 14:41:33 2018 +0200
+
+ avcodec/imgconvert: fix possible null pointer dereference
+
+ regression since 354b26a3945eadd4ed8fcd801dfefad2566241de
+
+ (cherry picked from commit 8c2c97403baf95d0facb53f03e468f023eb943e1)
+
+diff --git a/libavcodec/imgconvert.c b/libavcodec/imgconvert.c
+index 7b0005b308..1fd636c83d 100644
+--- a/libavcodec/imgconvert.c
++++ b/libavcodec/imgconvert.c
+@@ -72,11 +72,12 @@ enum AVPixelFormat avcodec_find_best_pix_fmt_of_list(const enum AVPixelFormat *p
+ int loss;
+
+ for (i=0; pix_fmt_list[i] != AV_PIX_FMT_NONE; i++) {
+- loss = *loss_ptr;
++ loss = loss_ptr ? *loss_ptr : 0;
+ best = avcodec_find_best_pix_fmt_of_2(best, pix_fmt_list[i], src_pix_fmt, has_alpha, &loss);
+ }
+
+- *loss_ptr = loss;
++ if (loss_ptr)
++ *loss_ptr = loss;
+ return best;
+ }
+