From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> If we are in a git directory, get_git_work_tree() can return NULL. While trying to determine whether or not the given paths are outside the work tree, the following command would read from it anyways and trigger a segmentation fault. git diff / / Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff-no-index.c | 6 ++---- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/diff-no-index.c b/diff-no-index.c index aae8e7a..4cd9dac 100644 --- a/diff-no-index.c +++ b/diff-no-index.c @@ -150,16 +150,14 @@ static int queue_diff(struct diff_options *o, static int path_outside_repo(const char *path) { - /* - * We have already done setup_git_directory_gently() so we - * know we are inside a git work tree already. - */ const char *work_tree; size_t len; if (!is_absolute_path(path)) return 0; work_tree = get_git_work_tree(); + if (!work_tree) + return 1; len = strlen(work_tree); if (strncmp(path, work_tree, len) || (path[len] != '\0' && path[len] != '/')) -- 1.7.1.rc2.333.gb2668 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html