log: handle broken HEAD in decoration check

The resolve_ref_unsafe() function may return NULL even with a REF_ISSYMREF flag if a symref points to a broken ref. As a result, it's possible for the decoration code's "is this branch the current HEAD" check to segfault when it passes the NULL to starts_with(). This is unlikely in practice, since we can only reach this code if we already resolved HEAD to a matching sha1 earlier. But it's possible if HEAD racily becomes broken, or if there's a transient filesystem error. We can fix this by returning early in the broken case, since NULL could not possibly match any of our branch names. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jeff King committed Oct 19, 2017 at 13:49 UTC d79be4983bdf6598f106710a4826752a96f5dd58
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log-tree.c
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@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static const struct name_decoration *current_pointed_by_HEAD(const struct name_d
198
199 /* Now resolve and find the matching current branch */
200 branch_name = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", 0, NULL, &rru_flags);
201 - if (!(rru_flags & REF_ISSYMREF))
201 + if (!branch_name || !(rru_flags & REF_ISSYMREF))
202 return NULL;
203
204 if (!starts_with(branch_name, "refs/"))