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-rw-r--r--libpod/image/image.go7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libpod/image/image.go b/libpod/image/image.go
index 6106084d5..dee2ce0ee 100644
--- a/libpod/image/image.go
+++ b/libpod/image/image.go
@@ -1246,7 +1246,12 @@ func areParentAndChild(parent, child *imgspecv1.Image) bool {
// the child and candidate parent should share all of the
// candidate parent's diff IDs, which together would have
// controlled which layers were used
- if len(parent.RootFS.DiffIDs) > len(child.RootFS.DiffIDs) {
+
+ // issue #7444 describes a panic where the length of child.RootFS.DiffIDs
+ // is checked but child is nil. Adding a simple band-aid approach to prevent
+ // the problem until the origin of the problem can be worked out in the issue
+ // itself.
+ if child == nil || len(parent.RootFS.DiffIDs) > len(child.RootFS.DiffIDs) {
return false
}
childUsesCandidateDiffs := true