From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 17:50:21 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bisect--helper: verify HEAD could be parsed before continuing
X-Git-Tag: v2.23.0-rc0~120^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/7877ac3d7b8ae84981c9c2fa86a4f3701ade4510

bisect--helper: verify HEAD could be parsed before continuing

In 06f5608c14e6 (bisect--helper: `bisect_start` shell function partially
in C, 2019-01-02), we introduced a call to `get_oid()` and did not check
whether it succeeded before using its output.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/builtin/bisect--helper.c b/builtin/bisect--helper.c
index e7325fe37f..1fbe156e67 100644
--- a/builtin/bisect--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/bisect--helper.c
@@ -570,7 +570,10 @@ static int bisect_start(struct bisect_terms *terms, int no_checkout,
 	write_file(git_path_bisect_start(), "%s\n", start_head.buf);
 
 	if (no_checkout) {
-		get_oid(start_head.buf, &oid);
+		if (get_oid(start_head.buf, &oid) < 0) {
+			retval = error(_("invalid ref: '%s'"), start_head.buf);
+			goto finish;
+		}
 		if (update_ref(NULL, "BISECT_HEAD", &oid, NULL, 0,
 			       UPDATE_REFS_MSG_ON_ERR)) {
 			retval = -1;