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 <p style="margin-top: 0;">On March 9th, 2015, 6:29 p.m. EDT, <b>Mark Michelson</b> wrote:</p>
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   <td colspan="4"><pre style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 140%; margin: 0; ">void ast_category_inherit(struct ast_category *new, const struct ast_category *base)</pre></td>

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    <td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50%"><pre style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 140%; margin: 0; "><span class="tb">   </span><span class="n">AST_LIST_INSERT_TAIL</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">&</span><span class="n">new</span><span class="o">-></span><span class="n">template_instances</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">next</span><span class="p">);</span></pre></td>
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    <td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50%"><pre style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 140%; margin: 0; "><span class="tb">   </span><span class="n">AST_LIST_INSERT_TAIL</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">&</span><span class="n">new</span><span class="o">-></span><span class="n">template_instances</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">next</span><span class="p">);</span></pre></td>
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    <td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50%"><pre style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 140%; margin: 0; "><span class="tb">   </span><span class="k">for</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">var</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">base</span><span class="o">-></span><span class="n">root</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="n">var</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="n">var</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">var</span><span class="o">-></span><span class="n">next</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span></pre></td>
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    <td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50%"><pre style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 140%; margin: 0; "><span class="tb">   </span><span class="tb">  </span><span class="k">struct</span> <span class="n">ast_variable</span> <span class="o">*</span><span class="n">cloned</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">variable_clone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">var</span><span class="p">);</span></pre></td>
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  <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Handling the possibility of cloned being NULL is necessary, but the problem with just returning here is that it leaves new in a half-altered state.

I think the way to do this is to perform all necessary allocations up front and then perform the necessary changes to new once they have all succeeded.</pre>
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<p>- Corey</p>


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<p>On March 9th, 2015, 4:50 p.m. EDT, Scott Griepentrog wrote:</p>








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<div>Review request for Asterisk Developers.</div>
<div>By Scott Griepentrog.</div>


<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated March 9, 2015, 4:50 p.m.</i></p>









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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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   <pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Using the CHAOS random failure mechanism (https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/4463/) I uncovered several possibilities of a crash on null pointer, and one uninitialized variable that allowed ast_random to lock up if used before utils init.

Additionally, extra output to determine why Asterisk failed to initialize has been added.</pre>
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