The cause of a NULL in tag->tagged can be:
* a unknown object type is used
* the tag points to a object with an other type as stated
in the tag.
Both situations are most likley be caused by a not welformed
tag. Catching this error here avoids doing tag->tagged!=NULL
checks in the rest of git.
Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <redacted>
---
In my option, this change would simplity many things.
tag.c | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tag.c b/tag.c
index 38bf913..96fef70 100644
--- a/tag.c
+++ b/tag.c
@@ -82,8 +82,12 @@ int parse_tag_buffer(struct tag *item, void *data, unsigned long size)
} else {
error("Unknown type %s", type);
item->tagged = NULL;
+ return -1;
}
+ if (!item->tagged)
+ return -1;
+
if (item->tagged && track_object_refs) {
struct object_refs *refs = alloc_object_refs(1);
refs->ref[0] = item->tagged;--
1.5.4.1.gcb4c5