It is not documented to be safe and in any case it is nonsense:
Currently av_strdup(NULL) returns NULL and in order to distinguish
this from a genuine allocation failure, opt_copy_elem()
checked afterwards whether src was actually NULL. But then one
can simply check in advance whether one should call av_strdup()
at all.
set_string() was even worse and returned ENOMEM in case the value
to be duplicated is NULL; this only worked because
av_opt_set_defaults2() does not check the return value at all
(given that it can't propagate it).

These two places account for 389114 of 390356 av_strdup(NULL)
calls during one FATE run.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>