only do squash when 'squashable field' present

lib/ansible/executor/task_executor.py

@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ class TaskExecutor:
                 # This gets the information to check whether the name field
                 # contains a template that we can squash for
                 template_no_item = template_with_item = None
+                if name:
                     if templar._contains_vars(name):
                         variables['item'] = '\0$'
                         template_no_item = templar.template(name, variables, cache=False)
@@ -289,7 +290,7 @@ class TaskExecutor:
                     # Check if the user is doing some operation that doesn't take
                     # name/pkg or the name/pkg field doesn't have any variables
                     # and thus the items can't be squashed
-                if name and (template_no_item != template_with_item):
+                    if template_no_item != template_with_item:
                         for item in items:
                             variables['item'] = item
                             if self._task.evaluate_conditional(templar, variables):