[14_1_X] Fix crash in DeDxEstimatorRekeyer

[stahlleiton]

PR description:

Backport of #46312

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @stahlleiton for CMSSW_14_1_X.

It involves the following packages:

• PhysicsTools/PatAlgos (xpog, reconstruction)

@cmsbuild, @ftorrresd, @hqucms, @jfernan2, @mandrenguyen can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@AlexDeMoor, @Ming-Yan, @Senphy, @ahinzmann, @andrzejnovak, @azotz, @castaned, @gkasieczka, @gouskos, @gpetruc, @hatakeyamak, @jdamgov, @jdolen, @mariadalfonso, @mbluj, @mmarionncern, @nhanvtran, @rappoccio, @schoef, @seemasharmafnal this is something you requested to watch as well.
@antoniovilela, @mandrenguyen, @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.

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• Backported from Fix crash in DeDxEstimatorRekeyer #46312

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[mandrenguyen]

backport of #46312

[mandrenguyen]

please test

[mandrenguyen]

urgent

[jfernan2]

+1

[cmsbuild]

+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 20KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-fa6241/42060/summary.html
COMMIT: c08160f
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_1_X_2024-10-08-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/46314/42060/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially added 3 lines to the logs
• Reco comparison results: 30 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 44
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3331166
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 2139
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3329007
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 43 files compared)
• Checked 191 log files, 161 edm output root files, 44 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[hqucms]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_14_1_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_14_2_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @mandrenguyen, @antoniovilela, @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[mandrenguyen]

+1