The value returned by getenv() is not guaranteed to remain valid across other environment function calls. But in between our call and using the value, we run fill_textconv(), which may do quite a bit of work, including spawning sub-processes. We can make this safer by calling getenv() right before we actually look at its value. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- diff.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c index 15556c190d..6751ec29f0 100644 --- a/diff.c +++ b/diff.c @@ -3476,7 +3476,7 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a, o->found_changes = 1; } else { /* Crazy xdl interfaces.. */ - const char *diffopts = getenv("GIT_DIFF_OPTS"); + const char *diffopts; const char *v; xpparam_t xpp; xdemitconf_t xecfg; @@ -3519,12 +3519,15 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a, xecfg.flags |= XDL_EMIT_FUNCCONTEXT; if (pe) xdiff_set_find_func(&xecfg, pe->pattern, pe->cflags); + + diffopts = getenv("GIT_DIFF_OPTS"); if (!diffopts) ; else if (skip_prefix(diffopts, "--unified=", &v)) xecfg.ctxlen = strtoul(v, NULL, 10); else if (skip_prefix(diffopts, "-u", &v)) xecfg.ctxlen = strtoul(v, NULL, 10); + if (o->word_diff) init_diff_words_data(&ecbdata, o, one, two); if (xdi_diff_outf(&mf1, &mf2, NULL, fn_out_consume, -- 2.20.1.651.g2d41a78c67