Backport of Fix crash when showing a cloud plan without having a cloud backend into v1.14 (#37756)

* backport of commit f85b17c

* backport of commit f86e0c0

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Co-authored-by: Daniel Banck <daniel@dbanck.de>

Author: github-actions[bot]

.changes/v1.13/BUG FIXES-20251009-144645.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+kind: BUG FIXES
+body: Fix crash when showing a cloud plan without having a cloud backend
+time: 2025-10-09T14:46:45.59398+02:00
+custom:
+    Issue: "37751"

internal/cloud/backend.go

@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ func (b *Cloud) Configure(obj cty.Value) tfdiags.Diagnostics {
 }
 
 func (b *Cloud) AppName() string {
-	if isValidAppName(b.appName) {
+	if b != nil && isValidAppName(b.appName) {
 		return b.appName
 	}
 	return "HCP Terraform"

internal/cloud/backend_test.go

@@ -1705,3 +1705,15 @@ func TestCloud_ServiceDiscoveryAliases(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("expected 1 alias but got %d", len(aliases))
 	}
 }
+
+// When a user tries to view a cloud plan without having a cloud backend in their
+// configuration, a call to AppName() would fail with a nil pointer exception
+// See: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/37748
+func TestCloud_AppName_with_nil(t *testing.T) {
+	var backend *Cloud = nil
+
+	name := backend.AppName()
+	if name != "HCP Terraform" {
+		t.Fatalf("expected name to be HCP Terraform, got %q", name)
+	}
+}