Coverity Scan may have found an issue in listobject's merge code. I'm not familiar with the code so I don't know if ssb.value can be NULL here.

3. Condition "ssb.values != NULL", taking false branch
4. var_compare_op: Comparing "ssb.values" to null implies that "ssb.values" might be null.
1642    if (ssb.values != NULL)
1643        ssb.values = ms->a.values + nb - 1;

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CID 715348 (#1 of 2): Dereference after null check (FORWARD_NULL)
18. var_deref_model: Passing "&ssb" to function "sortslice_copy_decr(sortslice *, sortslice *)", which dereferences null "ssb.values".
1711            sortslice_copy_decr(&dest, &ssb);

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Objects/listobject.c#l1711