From 3d2c204f2d528040f6775ae0102666aa5e6987f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tamo <tamo@meilisearch.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 11:26:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update crates/milli/src/search/facet/filter.rs

---
 crates/milli/src/search/facet/filter.rs | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crates/milli/src/search/facet/filter.rs b/crates/milli/src/search/facet/filter.rs
index 4d1e51767..803a0635b 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/search/facet/filter.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/search/facet/filter.rs
@@ -433,8 +433,9 @@ impl<'a> Filter<'a> {
                     }
                 };
 
-                if *last == 255 {
-                    // The prefix is invalid utf8, so no documents will match anyway
+                if *last == u8::MAX {
+                    // u8::MAX is a forbidden UTF-8 byte, we're guaranteed it cannot be sent through a filter to meilisearch, but just in case, we're going to return something
+                    tracing::warn!("Found non utf-8 character in filter. That shouldn't be possible");
                     return Ok(RoaringBitmap::new());
                 }
                 *last += 1;