From 8b0915f8e22d9768c5f0458c80048ee4f847af3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Pope <ben@redpanda.com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 15:05:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] schema_registry/seq_writer: Avoid unhandled exception

Signed-off-by: Ben Pope <ben@redpanda.com>
---
 src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/seq_writer.cc | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/seq_writer.cc b/src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/seq_writer.cc
index 0f010b3a1b6eb..a025f462cd5e5 100644
--- a/src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/seq_writer.cc
+++ b/src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/seq_writer.cc
@@ -391,10 +391,12 @@ seq_writer::do_delete_subject_impermanent(subject sub, model::offset write_at) {
       delete_subject_key{.seq{write_at}, .node{_node_id}, .sub{sub}},
       delete_subject_value{.sub{sub}});
 
-    auto conf = co_await ss::coroutine::as_future(
-      _store.get_subject_config_written_at(sub));
-    if (!conf.failed()) {
-        rb(conf.get());
+    try {
+        rb(co_await _store.get_subject_config_written_at(sub));
+    } catch (exception const& e) {
+        if (e.code() != error_code::subject_not_found) {
+            throw;
+        }
     }
 
     if (co_await produce_and_apply(write_at, std::move(rb).build())) {