On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 07:13:56PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote: > If resolve_refdup() fails it returns NULL and possibly leaves its hash > output parameter untouched. Make sure to use it only if the function > succeeded, in order to avoid accessing uninitialized memory. > > Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> > --- > builtin/am.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/am.c b/builtin/am.c > index a95dd8b4e6..2c52c820aa 100644 > --- a/builtin/am.c > +++ b/builtin/am.c > @@ -2156,7 +2156,7 @@ static void am_abort(struct am_state *state) > am_rerere_clear(); > > curr_branch = resolve_refdup("HEAD", 0, curr_head.hash, NULL); > - has_curr_head = !is_null_oid(&curr_head); > + has_curr_head = curr_branch && !is_null_oid(&curr_head); > if (!has_curr_head) > hashcpy(curr_head.hash, EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN); This one looks good to me (and no interesting ripple effects from handling the error correctly :) ). -Peff