diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/executor/Executor.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/executor/Executor.scala
index 5fa584591d935c19c78cd54800a2d4b096fe3302..835157fc520aa77bcfbf2eebc7163d5d91df144f 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/executor/Executor.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/executor/Executor.scala
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ private[spark] class Executor(
    * SparkContext. Also adds any new JARs we fetched to the class loader.
    */
   private def updateDependencies(newFiles: HashMap[String, Long], newJars: HashMap[String, Long]) {
-    val hadoopConf = SparkHadoopUtil.get.newConfiguration(conf)
+    lazy val hadoopConf = SparkHadoopUtil.get.newConfiguration(conf)
     synchronized {
       // Fetch missing dependencies
       for ((name, timestamp) <- newFiles if currentFiles.getOrElse(name, -1L) < timestamp) {