reftable/block: fix use of uninitialized memory when binsearch fails
When doing the binary search through our restart offsets we may hit an error in case `restart_needle_less()` fails to decode the record at the given offset. While we correctly detect this case and error out, it will cause us to call `reftable_record_release()` on the yet-uninitialized record. Fix this by initializing the record earlier. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Patrick Steinhardt committed
Jul 3, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
986590f1f7e9aa2771175e01cba5e2680ff62c1f
1 file changed
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reftable/block.c
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-4
index 4d285aefd7..89efce8751 100644
--- a/reftable/block.c
+++ b/reftable/block.c
@@ -517,6 +517,10 @@ int block_iter_seek_key(struct block_iter *it, struct reftable_buf *want)
int err = 0;
size_t i;
+ err = reftable_record_init(&rec, reftable_block_type(it->block));
+ if (err < 0)
+ goto done;
+
/*
* Perform a binary search over the block's restart points, which
* avoids doing a linear scan over the whole block. Like this, we
@@ -558,10 +562,6 @@ int block_iter_seek_key(struct block_iter *it, struct reftable_buf *want)
else
it->next_off = it->block->header_off + 4;
- err = reftable_record_init(&rec, reftable_block_type(it->block));
- if (err < 0)
- goto done;
-
/*
* We're looking for the last entry less than the wanted key so that
* the next call to `block_reader_next()` would yield the wanted