Protect peel_ref fallback case from NULL parse_object result

If the SHA-1 we are requesting the object for does not exist in the object database we get a NULL back. Accessing the type from that is not likely to succeed on any system. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
scantist-ossops-m2 · Feb 24, 2008 · 8c87dc7 · 8c87dc7
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diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ int peel_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1)
 
 	/* fallback - callers should not call this for unpacked refs */
 	o = parse_object(base);
-	if (o->type == OBJ_TAG) {
+	if (o && o->type == OBJ_TAG) {
 		o = deref_tag(o, ref, 0);
 		if (o) {
 			hashcpy(sha1, o->sha1);