From 0a58108f15f3facaddc9eb8e9e4e8734046c26bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:48:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] http: die on curl_easy_duphandle failure in get_active_slot get_active_slot() duplicates the default curl handle via curl_easy_duphandle() to create a per-slot session handle. The return value is stored directly in slot->curl without checking for NULL. curl_easy_duphandle() can return NULL when memory allocation fails internally, and the libcurl documentation explicitly states this possibility. When this happens, slot->curl is NULL and the very next operation (curl_easy_setopt on line 1632 for CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE) passes NULL as the curl handle, which is undefined behavior in libcurl and typically crashes. Every HTTP operation in git goes through get_active_slot(), so this affects all remote-https, remote-http, and HTTP-based operations (clone, fetch, push over HTTP, bundle-uri downloads). Add a NULL check and die() with a clear message. There is no reasonable recovery from a failed handle duplication: the process is out of memory and cannot perform any HTTP operation. Pointed out by Coverity. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- http.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/http.c b/http.c index b4e7b8d00b..8f1d6d1f56 100644 --- a/http.c +++ b/http.c @@ -1608,6 +1608,8 @@ struct active_request_slot *get_active_slot(void) if (!slot->curl) { slot->curl = curl_easy_duphandle(curl_default); + if (!slot->curl) + die("curl_easy_duphandle failed"); curl_session_count++; }