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Re: [PATCH 01/14] revision: defensive programming

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 15, 2025, 17:13 UTC
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"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> On the off chance that `lookup_decoration()` cannot find anything, let
> `leave_one_treesame_to_parent()` return gracefully instead of crashing.

But wouldn't it be a BUG("") worthy event for the treesame decoration not to exist for the commit object in question at this point of the code? Is it really defensive to silently pretend that nothing bad happened and to move forward?

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> Pointed out by CodeQL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  revision.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
> index c4390f0938cb..59eae4eb8ba8 100644
> --- a/revision.c
> +++ b/revision.c
> @@ -3359,6 +3359,9 @@ static int leave_one_treesame_to_parent(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *co
>  	struct commit_list *p;
>  	unsigned n;
>  
> +	if (!ts)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	for (p = commit->parents, n = 0; p; p = p->next, n++) {
>  		if (ts->treesame[n]) {
>  			if (p->item->object.flags & TMP_MARK) {
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  1. 00/14 Some defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  2. 01/14 revision: defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2025
  4. 02/14 get_parent(): defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2025
  6. Jeff KingMay 15, 2025
  7. 03/14 fetch-pack: defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2025
  9. 04/14 unparse_commit(): defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  10. 05/14 verify_commit_graph(): defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  11. 06/14 stash: defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  12. 07/14 stash: defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  13. 08/14 push: defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  14. 09/14 fetch: defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  15. 10/14 describe: defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  16. 11/14 inherit_tracking(): defensive programmingJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  17. 12/14 submodule: check return value of `submodule_from_path()`Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  18. 13/14 test-tool repository: check return value of `lookup_commit()`Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025
  19. 14/14 shallow: handle missing shallow commits gracefullyJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, May 15, 2025

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