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Re: Null pointer dereference in error pathway on git pull

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 26, 2021, 22:55 UTC
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:31:30PM -0800, Joshua Hudson wrote:
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> >git pull
> remote: Azure Repos
> remote: Found 452 objects to send. (157 ms)
> Rfatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
> fatal: early EOFs:  81% (367/452)
> fatal: index-pack failed
> warning: unable to unlink '(NULL)': Invalid argument
> 
> 
> So it hits some kind of error (looks like network disconnect) and tries
> to back out; passed a NULL pointer to unlink().
> 
> Apologies if this has been submitted before. A search didn't find it.

Which version of Git are you using? It sounds like the same bug fixed by 6031af387e (fetch-pack: disregard invalid pack lockfiles, 2020-11-30). That's in v2.30.0.

-Peff
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