From 2d3b52c24458df9ac0986546810e54aa36c2d196 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Pawe=C5=82=20Bogus=C5=82awski?= <pawel.boguslawski@ib.pl>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 22:50:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] SessionUser protection against nil pointer dereference
 (#21358)

`SessionUser` should be protected against passing `sess` = `nil` to
avoid

```
PANIC: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
```

in


https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/18452/files#diff-a215b82aadeb8b4c4632fcf31215dd421f804eb1c0137ec6721b980136e4442aR69

after upgrade from gitea v1.16 to v1.17.

Related: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/18452
Author-Change-Id: IB#1126459
---
 services/auth/session.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/services/auth/session.go b/services/auth/session.go
index 6a23a176651f..1ec94aa0af71 100644
--- a/services/auth/session.go
+++ b/services/auth/session.go
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ func (s *Session) Verify(req *http.Request, w http.ResponseWriter, store DataSto
 
 // SessionUser returns the user object corresponding to the "uid" session variable.
 func SessionUser(sess SessionStore) *user_model.User {
+	if sess == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	// Get user ID
 	uid := sess.Get("uid")
 	if uid == nil {