From ab04074d185e6691128edb2b69875d50916ac6c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Serong <14988353+andrewserong@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:51:15 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Footnotes: Fix recursion into updating attributes when
 attributes is not an object (#53257)

---
 packages/core-data/src/entity-provider.js | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/core-data/src/entity-provider.js b/packages/core-data/src/entity-provider.js
index 6cc1e021841b4..3039105d7c55c 100644
--- a/packages/core-data/src/entity-provider.js
+++ b/packages/core-data/src/entity-provider.js
@@ -229,6 +229,15 @@ export function useEntityBlockEditor( kind, name, { id: _id } = {} ) {
 			);
 
 			function updateAttributes( attributes ) {
+				// Only attempt to update attributes, if attributes is an object.
+				if (
+					! attributes ||
+					Array.isArray( attributes ) ||
+					typeof attributes !== 'object'
+				) {
+					return attributes;
+				}
+
 				attributes = { ...attributes };
 
 				for ( const key in attributes ) {