Fixed #28848 -- Fixed SQLite/MySQL crash when ordering by a filtered subquery that uses nulls_first/nulls_last.

django/db/models/expressions.py

@@ -1106,6 +1106,7 @@ class OrderBy(BaseExpression):
         }
         placeholders.update(extra_context)
         template = template or self.template
+        params *= template.count('%(expression)s')
         return (template % placeholders).rstrip(), params
 
     def as_sqlite(self, compiler, connection):

docs/releases/1.11.8.txt

@@ -21,3 +21,6 @@ Bugfixes
 
 * Made ``QuerySet.iterator()`` use server-side cursors on PostgreSQL after
   ``values()`` and ``values_list()`` (:ticket:`28817`).
+
+* Fixed crash on SQLite and MySQL when ordering by a filtered subquery that
+  uses ``nulls_first`` or ``nulls_last`` (:ticket:`28848`).

tests/ordering/tests.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 from operator import attrgetter
 
-from django.db.models import F
+from django.db.models import DateTimeField, F, Max, OuterRef, Subquery
 from django.db.models.functions import Upper
 from django.test import TestCase
 
@@ -138,6 +138,27 @@ class OrderingTests(TestCase):
             [self.a1, self.a2, self.a4, self.a3],
         )
 
+    def test_orders_nulls_first_on_filtered_subquery(self):
+        Article.objects.filter(headline='Article 1').update(author=self.author_1)
+        Article.objects.filter(headline='Article 2').update(author=self.author_1)
+        Article.objects.filter(headline='Article 4').update(author=self.author_2)
+        Author.objects.filter(name__isnull=True).delete()
+        author_3 = Author.objects.create(name='Name 3')
+        article_subquery = Article.objects.filter(
+            author=OuterRef('pk'),
+            headline__icontains='Article',
+        ).order_by().values('author').annotate(
+            last_date=Max('pub_date'),
+        ).values('last_date')
+        self.assertQuerysetEqualReversible(
+            Author.objects.annotate(
+                last_date=Subquery(article_subquery, output_field=DateTimeField())
+            ).order_by(
+                F('last_date').asc(nulls_first=True)
+            ).distinct(),
+            [author_3, self.author_1, self.author_2],
+        )
+
     def test_stop_slicing(self):
         """
         Use the 'stop' part of slicing notation to limit the results.