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    split-index: BUG() when cache entry refers to non-existing shared entry · 4c490f3d
    Gábor Szeder authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    
    
    When the split index feature is in use, then a cache entry is:
    
      - either only present in the split index, in which case its 'index'
        field must be 0,
    
      - or it should refer to an existing entry in the shared index, i.e.
        the 'index' field can't be greater than the size of the shared
        index.
    
    If a cache entry were to refer to a non-existing entry in the shared
    index, then that's a sign of something being wrong in the index state,
    either as a result of a bug in dealing with the split/shared index
    entries, or perhaps a (potentially unrelated) memory corruption issue.
    
    prepare_to_write_split_index() already has a condition to catch cache
    entries with such bogus 'index' field, but instead of calling BUG() it
    just sets cache entry's 'index = 0', and the entry will then be
    written to the new split index.
    
    Don't write a new index file from bogus index state, and call BUG()
    upon encountering an cache entry referring to a non-existing shared
    index entry.
    
    Running the test suite repeatedly with 'GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes'
    doesn't trigger this condition.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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