From 872324cb00996cb5dc8c7a2f85455e0056d2965c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Topol <zotthewizard@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 13:04:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] handle bad index

---
 cpp/src/arrow/ipc/writer.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cpp/src/arrow/ipc/writer.cc b/cpp/src/arrow/ipc/writer.cc
index 88d66a1a9a010..f603e60c66555 100644
--- a/cpp/src/arrow/ipc/writer.cc
+++ b/cpp/src/arrow/ipc/writer.cc
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ class RecordBatchSerializer {
     auto data = array.value_data();
 
     int64_t total_data_bytes = 0;
-    if (value_offsets) {
+    if (value_offsets && array.length() > 0) {
       offset_type last_offset_value;
       RETURN_NOT_OK(MemoryManager::CopyBufferSliceToCPU(
           value_offsets, array.length() * sizeof(offset_type), sizeof(offset_type),