C语言链表，指针内存分配

力扣https://leetcode-cn.com/problems/merge-two-sorted-lists/submissions/做这道题目的时候，定义了ListNode指针p，但是没有分配内存，直接初始化，运行时报错。

Line 14: Char 11: runtime error: member access within null pointer of type 'struct ListNode' [solution.c]。分配内存后问题解决。

/**
 * Definition for singly-linked list.
 * struct ListNode {
 *     int val;
 *     struct ListNode *next;
 * };
 */


struct ListNode* mergeTwoLists(struct ListNode* list1, struct ListNode* list2){
    struct ListNode *ans;
    struct ListNode* p = (struct ListNode*) malloc(sizeof(struct ListNode));

    p->val=0;
    p->next=NULL;
    ans=p;
    if(list1==NULL)return list2;
    if(list2==NULL)return list1;
    while(list1 && list2){
        if(list1->val<list2->val){
            p->next=list1;
            list1=list1->next;
        }
        else{
            p->next=list2;
            list2=list2->next;
        }
        p=p->next;
    }
    if(list1)p->next=list1;
    else{p->next=list2;}
    return ans->next;
}