Subject: [PATCH 02/14] get_parent(): defensive programming

From: "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 12:45:27 +0000

From: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>

CodeQL points out that `lookup_commit_reference()` can return NULL
values.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>
---
 object-name.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/object-name.c b/object-name.c
index 76749fbfe652..ca54dad2f4c8 100644
--- a/object-name.c
+++ b/object-name.c
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ static enum get_oid_result get_parent(struct repository *r,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 	commit = lookup_commit_reference(r, &oid);
-	if (repo_parse_commit(r, commit))
+	if (!commit || repo_parse_commit(r, commit))
 		return MISSING_OBJECT;
 	if (!idx) {
 		oidcpy(result, &commit->object.oid);
-- 
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