Fix crash in DeDxEstimatorRekeyer

[stahlleiton]

PR description:

This PR fixes the issue reported in #46307

PR validation:

Tested by running over the crashing HIForward event reported by T0.

If this PR is a backport please specify the original PR and why you need to backport that PR. If this PR will be backported please specify to which release cycle the backport is meant for:

Backport to be made for 14_1_X

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-46312/42140

[cmsbuild]

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

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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[mandrenguyen]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 20KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-e70279/42059/summary.html
COMMIT: 221cd80
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_2_X_2024-10-08-1100/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/46312/42059/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 2 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 50 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 44
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3331066
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 3863
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3327183
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 43 files compared)
• Checked 193 log files, 163 edm output root files, 44 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[mandrenguyen]

urgent

[jfernan2]

+1

[mandrenguyen]

ping @cms-sw/xpog-l2

[hqucms]

+1

[cmsbuild]

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

[mandrenguyen]

+1