Random invalid pointer handle using Managed Transport

[pjbgf]

We have implemented a managed transport for git2go in fluxcd/source-controller, which is heavily based on git2go's default implementation and it works quite well most of times.

However, we have noticed that at times git2go may panic when trying to call git2go/v33.(*HandleList).Get.
I am finding it difficult to reproduce this consistently, but have experienced it a few times (e.g. the Git Fetch example below) on my local setup.

Git Fetch

panic: invalid pointer handle: 0x7f8098019b20

goroutine 367 [running]:
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.(*HandleList).Get(0x0?, 0x7f8098019b20)
        /home/levi/go/pkg/mod/github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/handles.go:64 +0x12e
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.certificateCheckCallback(0xf76656?, 0x7f809803c0e8, 0x1, 0xc0000ec1a0?, 0x300000002?)
        /home/levi/go/pkg/mod/github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/remote.go:445 +0x3d
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33._Cfunc_git_remote_fetch(0x7f8098007f40, 0xc000742030, 0xc0009cf110, 0x0)
        _cgo_gotypes.go:7125 +0x4c
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.(*Remote).Fetch.func2(0xc0009cf110?, 0xc000117cb0?, 0x33d3e30?, 0x90?)
        /home/levi/go/pkg/mod/github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/remote.go:1044 +0xa7
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.(*Remote).Fetch(0xc0005f6000, {0xc000f71360, 0x1, 0x1}, 0x2?, {0x0?, 0x0})
        /home/levi/go/pkg/mod/github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/remote.go:1044 +0x1f2

Other users are experiencing it quite consistently but during a clone, at the point of getting to the credentials call back:

Getting smart credentials during Clone

panic: invalid pointer handle: 0x7ff5fdce8500

goroutine 361 [running]:
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.(*HandleList).Get(0xc000480d00, 0x7ff5fdce8500)
github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/handles.go:64 +0x12e
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.credentialsCallback(0xc00010f000, 0xc0003e52b0, 0xc0008dc640, 0xc000d32500, 0x260, 0xc00007e8d0)
github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/remote.go:373 +0x45
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33._Cfunc_git_transport_smart_credentials(0xc0003e52b0, 0x7ff5fdd6f490, 0x0, 0x40)
_cgo_gotypes.go:8811 +0x4c
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.(*Transport).SmartCredentials.func2(0xc0003e52b0, 0xc0003e52b0, 0x1af7300, 0x40)
github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/transport.go:112 +0x90
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.(*Transport).SmartCredentials(0x1dc50fd, {0x0, 0xc000278990}, 0x1)
github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/transport.go:112 +0xeb
github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/pkg/git/libgit2/managed.(*sshSmartSubtransport).Action(0xc000382000, {0xc000efd290, 0x29}, 0x2)
github.com/fluxcd/[email protected]/pkg/git/libgit2/managed/ssh.go:174 +0x32e
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.smartSubtransportActionCallback(0x4e31e7, 0x7ff5fd87e978, 0x1000c00199a600, 0x1, 0x2)
github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/transport.go:374 +0xb0
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33._Cfunc_git_remote_free(0x7ff5fdf7ffe0)
_cgo_gotypes.go:7146 +0x45
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.(*Remote).free.func1(0x1cf9060)
github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/remote.go:603 +0x46
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.(*Remote).free(0xc0002be0c0)
github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/remote.go:603 +0x36
github.com/libgit2/git2go/v33.(*Remote).Free(0xc0002be0c0)
github.com/libgit2/git2go/[email protected]/remote.go:614 +0x48

The handle's list is part of git2go internal state, so I am not quite sure how we can ensure it is already properly set.
Has anyone else experienced this? Any pointers on how to resolve it?

[pjbgf]

Unfortunately, the only way we found to consistently avoid this issue was to not use transport.SmartCredentials() and stop relying on git2go primitives to store and return data we may later need during the callbacks.