parse_commit_buffer(): treat lookup_tree() failure as parse error

If parsing a commit yields a valid tree oid, but we've seen that same
oid as a non-tree in the same process, the resulting commit struct will
end up with a NULL tree pointer, but not otherwise report a parsing
failure.

That's perhaps convenient for callers which want to operate on even
partially corrupt commits (e.g., by still looking at the parents). But
it leaves a potential trap for most callers, who now have to manually
check for a NULL tree. Most do not, and it's likely that there are
possible segfaults lurking. I say "possible" because there are many
candidates, and I don't think it's worth following through on
reproducing them when we can just fix them all in one spot. And
certainly we _have_ seen real-world cases, such as the one fixed by
806278dead (commit-graph.c: handle corrupt/missing trees, 2019-09-05).

Note that we can't quite drop the check in the caller added by that
commit yet, as there's some subtlety with repeated parsings (which will
be addressed in a future commit).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 6467c9e175..810419a168 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ int parse_commit_buffer(struct repository *r, struct commit *item, const void *b
 	struct commit_graft *graft;
 	const int tree_entry_len = the_hash_algo->hexsz + 5;
 	const int parent_entry_len = the_hash_algo->hexsz + 7;
+	struct tree *tree;
 
 	if (item->object.parsed)
 		return 0;
@@ -412,7 +413,12 @@ int parse_commit_buffer(struct repository *r, struct commit *item, const void *b
 	if (get_oid_hex(bufptr + 5, &parent) < 0)
 		return error("bad tree pointer in commit %s",
 			     oid_to_hex(&item->object.oid));
-	set_commit_tree(item, lookup_tree(r, &parent));
+	tree = lookup_tree(r, &parent);
+	if (!tree)
+		return error("bad tree pointer %s in commit %s",
+			     oid_to_hex(&parent),
+			     oid_to_hex(&item->object.oid));
+	set_commit_tree(item, tree);
 	bufptr += tree_entry_len + 1; /* "tree " + "hex sha1" + "\n" */
 	pptr = &item->parents;