From: Florian Forster <sifnfors@informatik.stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:56:10 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: exec plugin: Set notify->meta to NULL before copying the list.
X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.5.0~117^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9cce919dd741a09986519b496cecaa7781f139e;p=collectd.git

exec plugin: Set notify->meta to NULL before copying the list.

Otherwise we will run into a nasty endless loop.
---

diff --git a/src/exec.c b/src/exec.c
index 5f9d6ad2..6b6836e9 100644
--- a/src/exec.c
+++ b/src/exec.c
@@ -788,6 +788,10 @@ static int exec_notification (const notification_t *n)
 
     pln->pl = pl;
     memcpy (&pln->n, n, sizeof (notification_t));
+
+    /* Set the `meta' member to NULL, otherwise `plugin_notification_meta_copy'
+     * will run into an endless loop. */
+    pln->n.meta = NULL;
     plugin_notification_meta_copy (&pln->n, n);
 
     pthread_attr_init (&attr);