remote: handle broken symrefs

It's possible for resolve_ref_unsafe() to return NULL with a
REF_ISSYMREF flag if a symref points to a broken ref.  In
this case, the read_remote_branches() function will segfault
passing the name to xstrdup().

This is hard to trigger in practice, since this function is
used as a callback to for_each_ref(), which will skip broken
refs in the first place (so it would have to be broken
racily, or for us to see a transient filesystem error).

If we see such a racy broken outcome let's treat it as "not
a symref". This is exactly the same thing that would happen
in the non-racy case (our function would not be called at
all, as for_each_ref would skip the broken symref).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: peff

builtin/remote.c

@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ static int read_remote_branches(const char *refname,
 		item = string_list_append(rename->remote_branches, xstrdup(refname));
 		symref = resolve_ref_unsafe(refname, RESOLVE_REF_READING,
 					    NULL, &flag);
-		if (flag & REF_ISSYMREF)
+		if (symref && (flag & REF_ISSYMREF))
 			item->util = xstrdup(symref);
 		else
 			item->util = NULL;