builtin_diff(): read $GIT_DIFF_OPTS closer to use

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@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index db5e5e9640743e275ac44abcf3ffb2f3c59eb556..0920b12c0c3827b55a3497924a43ada017ede20f 100644 (file)
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -3444,7 +3444,7 @@ 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;
@@ -3487,12 +3487,15 @@ 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, fn_out_consume, &ecbdata,