From 9cb771a4a05b3c204a2b0626b22a29874919b3aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:50:13 +1000
Subject: pidl-python: ensure we allocate ref ptrs before use

this fixes a crash on samba4.samr.python in the build farm
---
 pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Samba4/Python.pm | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl')

diff --git a/pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Samba4/Python.pm b/pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Samba4/Python.pm
index eb39718bb5..05c11be07f 100644
--- a/pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Samba4/Python.pm
+++ b/pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Samba4/Python.pm
@@ -947,7 +947,11 @@ sub ConvertObjectFromPythonLevel($$$$$$$$$)
 		}
 		# if we want to handle more than one level of pointer in python interfaces
 		# then this is where we would need to allocate it
-		$self->pidl("$var_name = NULL;");
+		if ($l->{POINTER_TYPE} eq "ref") {
+			$self->pidl("$var_name = talloc_ptrtype($mem_ctx, $var_name);");
+		} else {
+			$self->pidl("$var_name = NULL;");
+		}
 		$self->ConvertObjectFromPythonLevel($env, $mem_ctx, $mem_ref, $py_var, $e, $nl, get_value_of($var_name), $fail);
 		if ($l->{POINTER_TYPE} ne "ref") {
 			$self->deindent;
-- 
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