From: Russell Bryant <russell@russellbryant.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:17:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Some dialplan functions, such as CUT(), expect to operate on variables on a
X-Git-Tag: 1.4.7.1~416
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=215adb35b650130645547a2ef0a27551a3ef1e15;p=thirdparty%2Fasterisk.git

Some dialplan functions, such as CUT(), expect to operate on variables on a
channel.  So, this little hack lets them work in places where a channel doesn't
exist, such as within DUNDi configuration.
(issue #9465, reported and patched by Corydon76, testing by blitzrage)


git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4@61765 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
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diff --git a/main/pbx.c b/main/pbx.c
index 257728df45..1f6ccbd46c 100644
--- a/main/pbx.c
+++ b/main/pbx.c
@@ -1642,7 +1642,21 @@ static void pbx_substitute_variables_helper_full(struct ast_channel *c, struct v
 			parse_variable_name(vars, &offset, &offset2, &isfunction);
 			if (isfunction) {
 				/* Evaluate function */
-				cp4 = ast_func_read(c, vars, workspace, VAR_BUF_SIZE) ? NULL : workspace;
+				if (c)
+					cp4 = ast_func_read(c, vars, workspace, VAR_BUF_SIZE) ? NULL : workspace;
+				else {
+					struct varshead old;
+					struct ast_channel *c = ast_channel_alloc(0, 0, "", "", "", "", "", 0, "Bogus/%p", vars);
+					if (c) {
+						memcpy(&old, &c->varshead, sizeof(old));
+						memcpy(&c->varshead, headp, sizeof(c->varshead));
+						cp4 = ast_func_read(c, vars, workspace, VAR_BUF_SIZE) ? NULL : workspace;
+						/* Don't deallocate the varshead that was passed in */
+						memcpy(&c->varshead, &old, sizeof(c->varshead));
+						ast_channel_free(c);
+					} else
+						ast_log(LOG_ERROR, "Unable to allocate bogus channel for variable substitution.  Function results may be blank.\n");
+				}
 
 				if (option_debug)
 					ast_log(LOG_DEBUG, "Function result is '%s'\n", cp4 ? cp4 : "(null)");