In a future commit, the pointer returned by tree_entry_extract will point into the struct tree_desc, causing its lifetime to be bound to that of the struct tree_desc itself. To ensure this code path keeps working, copy the object_id into a local variable so that it lives long enough. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tree-walk.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/tree-walk.c b/tree-walk.c index 79bafbd1a2..1e040fc20e 100644 --- a/tree-walk.c +++ b/tree-walk.c @@ -498,10 +498,10 @@ static int find_tree_entry(struct tree_desc *t, const char *name, struct object_ int namelen = strlen(name); while (t->size) { const char *entry; - const struct object_id *oid; + struct object_id oid; int entrylen, cmp; - oid = tree_entry_extract(t, &entry, mode); + oidcpy(&oid, tree_entry_extract(t, &entry, mode)); entrylen = tree_entry_len(&t->entry); update_tree_entry(t); if (entrylen > namelen) @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static int find_tree_entry(struct tree_desc *t, const char *name, struct object_ if (cmp < 0) break; if (entrylen == namelen) { - oidcpy(result, oid); + oidcpy(result, &oid); return 0; } if (name[entrylen] != '/') @@ -520,10 +520,10 @@ static int find_tree_entry(struct tree_desc *t, const char *name, struct object_ if (!S_ISDIR(*mode)) break; if (++entrylen == namelen) { - oidcpy(result, oid); + oidcpy(result, &oid); return 0; } - return get_tree_entry(oid, name + entrylen, result, mode); + return get_tree_entry(&oid, name + entrylen, result, mode); } return -1; }