PVS-Studio warning V668 for WinSCP

STDMETHODIMP CShellExtClassFactory::CreateInstance(....)
{
  ....
  CShellExt* ShellExt = new CShellExt();
  if (NULL == ShellExt)
  {
    return E_OUTOFMEMORY;
  }
  ....
}

This suspicious code was found in WinSCP project by PVS-Studio static code analyzer.
Warning message is:
V668 There is no sense in testing the 'ShellExt' pointer against null, as the memory was allocated using the 'new' operator. The exception will be generated in the case of memory allocation error. dragext.cpp 554

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