reftable/basics: handle allocation failures in `parse_names()`

Handle allocation failures in `parse_names()` by returning `NULL` in
case any allocation fails. While at it, refactor the function to return
the array directly instead of assigning it to an out-pointer.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/reftable/stack.c b/reftable/stack.c
index ce0a35216b..498fae846d 100644
--- a/reftable/stack.c
+++ b/reftable/stack.c
@@ -108,7 +108,11 @@ static int fd_read_lines(int fd, char ***namesp)
 	}
 	buf[size] = 0;
 
-	parse_names(buf, size, namesp);
+	*namesp = parse_names(buf, size);
+	if (!*namesp) {
+		err = REFTABLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY_ERROR;
+		goto done;
+	}
 
 done:
 	reftable_free(buf);