app_meetme is deprecated in 19, to be removed in 21.
app_osplookup is deprecated in 19, to be removed in 21.
chan_alsa is deprecated in 19, to be removed in 21.
chan_mgcp is deprecated in 19, to be removed in 21.
chan_skinny is deprecated in 19, to be removed in 21.
res_pktccops is deprecated in 19, to be removed in 21.
app_macro was deprecated in 16, to be removed in 21.
chan_sip was deprecated in 17, to be removed in 21.
res_monitor was deprecated in 16, to be removed in 21.
ASTERISK-29548
ASTERISK-29549
ASTERISK-29550
ASTERISK-29551
ASTERISK-29552
ASTERISK-29553
ASTERISK-29558
ASTERISK-29567
ASTERISK-29572
Change-Id: Ic3bee31a10d42c4b3bbc913d893f7b2a28a27131
The menuselect comment was updated to deprecate these modules but the
AST_MODULE_INFO block at the end of file was missed.
ASTERISK-27671
Change-Id: I63070b5c4d4f08af010c6034acd4793c1bcef839
* app_fax (replaced by res_fax).
* res_config_sqlite (replaced by res_config_sqlite3).
* res_monitor (replaced by app_mixmonitor).
This is related to ASTERISK~23657 but does not resolve that ticket.
Resolving that ticket would require complete removal of res_monitor.
ASTERISK-27671 #close
Change-Id: I16a3edd61fc1abd4a7b2e9357693ed663f62dd49
This removes references that are no longer needed due to automatic
references created by module dependencies.
In addition this removes most calls to ast_module_check as they were
checking modules which are listed as dependencies.
Change-Id: I332a6e8383d4c72c8e89d988a184ab8320c4872e
I've audited all modules that include any header which includes
asterisk/optional_api.h. All modules which use OPTIONAL_API now declare
those dependencies in AST_MODULE_INFO using requires or optional_modules
as appropriate.
In addition ARI dependency declarations have been reworked. Instead of
declaring additional required modules in res/ari/resource_*.c we now add
them to an optional array "requiresModules" in api-docs for each module.
This allows the AST_MODULE_INFO dependencies to include those missing
modules.
Change-Id: Ia0c70571f5566784f63605e78e1ceccb4f79c606
Once an Optional API module is loaded it should stay loaded. Unloading
an optional API module runs the risk of a crash if something else is
using it. This patch causes all optional API providers to tell the
module loader not to unload except at shutdown.
ASTERISK-27389
Change-Id: Ia07786fe655681aec49cc8d3d96e06483b11f5e6
An admin can configure app_minivm with an externnotify program to be run
when a voicemail is received. The app_minivm application MinivmNotify
uses ast_safe_system() for this purpose which is vulnerable to command
injection since the Caller-ID name and number values given to externnotify
can come from an external untrusted source.
* Add ast_safe_execvp() function. This gives modules the ability to run
external commands with greater safety compared to ast_safe_system().
Specifically when some parameters are filled by untrusted sources the new
function does not allow malicious input to break argument encoding. This
may be of particular concern where CALLERID(name) or CALLERID(num) may be
used as a parameter to a script run by ast_safe_system() which could
potentially allow arbitrary command execution.
* Changed app_minivm.c:run_externnotify() to use the new ast_safe_execvp()
instead of ast_safe_system() to avoid command injection.
* Document code injection potential from untrusted data sources for other
shell commands that are under user control.
ASTERISK-27103
Change-Id: I7552472247a84cde24e1358aaf64af160107aef1
GCC 7 has added capability to produce warnings, this fixes most of those
warnings. The specific warnings are disabled in a few places:
* app_voicemail.c: truncation of paths more than 4096 chars in many places.
* chan_mgcp.c: callid truncated to 80 chars.
* cdr.c: two userfields are combined to cdr copy, fix would break ABI.
* tcptls.c: ignore use of deprecated method SSLv3_client_method().
ASTERISK-27156 #close
Change-Id: I65f280e7d3cfad279d16f41823a4d6fddcbc4c88
ASTERISK_REGISTER_FILE no longer has any purpose so this commit removes
all traces of it.
Previously exported symbols removed:
* __ast_register_file
* __ast_unregister_file
* ast_complete_source_filename
This also removes the mtx_prof static variable that was declared when
MTX_PROFILE was enabled. This variable was only used in lock.c so it
is now initialized in that file only.
ASTERISK-26480 #close
Change-Id: I1074af07d71f9e159c48ef36631aa432c86f9966
Git does not support the ability to replace a token with a version
string during check-in. While it does have support for replacing a
token on clone, this is somewhat sub-optimal: the token is replaced
with the object hash, which is not particularly easy for human
consumption. What's more, in practice, the source file version was often
not terribly useful. Generally, when triaging bugs, the overall version
of Asterisk is far more useful than an individual SVN version of a file. As a
result, this patch removes Asterisk's support for showing source file
versions.
Specifically, it does the following:
* Rename ASTERISK_FILE_VERSION macro to ASTERISK_REGISTER_FILE, and
remove passing the version in with the macro. Other facilities
than 'core show file version' make use of the file names, such as
setting a debug level only on a specific file. As such, the act of
registering source files with the Asterisk core still has use. The
macro rename now reflects the new macro purpose.
* main/asterisk:
- Refactor the file_version structure to reflect that it no longer
tracks a version field.
- Remove the "core show file version" CLI command. Without the file
version, it is no longer useful.
- Remove the ast_file_version_find function. The file version is no
longer tracked.
- Rename ast_register_file_version/ast_unregister_file_version to
ast_register_file/ast_unregister_file, respectively.
* main/manager: Remove value from the Version key of the ModuleCheck
Action. The actual key itself has not been removed, as doing so would
absolutely constitute a backwards incompatible change. However, since
the file version is no longer tracked, there is no need to attempt to
include it in the Version key.
* UPGRADE: Add notes for:
- Modification to the ModuleCheck AMI Action
- Removal of the "core show file version" CLI command
Change-Id: I6cf0ff280e1668bf4957dc21f32a5ff43444a40e
When repeatedly starting/stopping a Monitor on a channel, the accumulated
in/out sample counts are never reset to 0. This can cause inadvertent jumps
in the recordings, as the code in the channel core will determine incorrectly
that a jump in the recorded file position should occur. Setting the sample
counts to 0 simply reflects the initial state a Monitor should be in when it
is started, as this is the initial count that would be on the channels at that
time.
ASTERISK-24573 #close
Reported by: Nuno Borges
patches:
24573.patch uploaded by Nuno Borges (License 6116)
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For some odd reason, loading app_mixmonitor was fine, but res_monitor was not.
This patch fixes a set of issues related to func_periodic_hook exporting the
beep functions that gets res_monitor working again.
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Add an option to enable a periodic beep to be played into a call if it
is being recorded. If enabled, it uses the PERIODIC_HOOK() function
internally to play the 'beep' prompt into the call at a specified
interval. This option is provided for both Monitor() and
MixMonitor().
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This app is pretty ancient, so it was never converted to use the
option parsing helper code. I'd like to add an option to this app
that takes an argument, and that's a pain to do when not using this
helper, so start by doing this conversion.
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3429/
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This patch is the initial push to update Asterisk's CDR engine for the new
bridging framework. This patch guts the existing CDR engine and builds the new
on top of messages coming across Stasis. As changes in channel state and bridge
state are detected, CDRs are built and dispatched accordingly. This
fundamentally changes CDRs in a few ways.
(1) CDRs are now *very* reflective of the actual state of channels and bridges.
This means CDRs track well with what an actual channel is doing - which
is useful in transfer scenarios (which were previously difficult to pin
down). It does, however, mean that CDRs cannot be 'fooled'. Previous
behavior in Asterisk allowed for CDR applications, channels, and other
properties to be spoofed in parts of the code - this no longer works.
(2) CDRs have defined behavior in multi-party scenarios. This behavior will not
be what everyone wants, but it is a defined behavior and as such, it is
predictable.
(3) The CDR manipulation functions and applications have been overhauled. Major
changes have been made to ResetCDR and ForkCDR in particular. Many of the
options for these two applications no longer made any sense with the new
framework and the (slightly) more immutable nature of CDRs.
There are a plethora of other changes. For a full description of CDR behavior,
see the CDR specification on the Asterisk wiki.
(closes issue ASTERISK-21196)
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2486/
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When ast_channel_cached_blob_create was merged,
ast_channel_blob_create_from_cache was partially removed in an
unresolved merge conflict. This restores ast_channel_blob_create_from_cache
and refactors usage of ast_channel_cached_blob_create (requires an
ast_channel) to use ast_channel_blob_create_from_cache (requires a
channel uniqueid) instead.
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This patch moves a number of AMI events over to the Stasis-Core message bus.
This includes:
* ChanSpyStart/Stop
* MonitorStart/Stop
* MusicOnHoldStart/Stop
* FullyBooted/Reload
* All Voicemail/MWI related events
In addition, it adds some Stasis-Core and AMI support for generic AMI messages,
refactors the message router in AMI to use a single router with topic
forwarding for the topics that AMI cares about, and refactors MWI message
types and topics to be more name compliant.
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2532
(closes issue ASTERISK-21462)
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This resolves core findings from ASTERISK-19650 numbers 0-2, 6, 7, 9-11, 14-20,
22-24, 28, 30-32, 34-36, 42-56, 82-84, 87, 89-90, 93-102, 104, 105, 109-111,
and 115. Finding numbers 26, 33, and 29 were already resolved. Those skipped
were either extended/deprecated or in areas of code that shouldn't be
disturbed.
(Closes issue ASTERISK-19650)
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I also went ahead and took a little time to make sure that the manager value
AMI_SUCCESS was used instead of just return 0 being thrown around everywhere since that's
how we handle this stuff these days.
(closes issue ASTERISK-19249)
Reporter: Jamuel Starkey
Patches:
res_monitor.c-ASTERISK-19249.diff uploaded by Jamuel Starkey (license 5766)
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Continue channel opaque-ification by wrapping all of the stringfields.
Eventually, we will restrict what can actually set these variables, but
the purpose for now is to hide the implementation and keep people from
adding code that directly accesses the channel structure. Semantic
changes will follow afterward.
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1661/
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There are many benefits to making the ast_channel an opaque handle, from
increasing maintainability to presenting ways to kill masquerades. This patch
kicks things off by taking things a field at a time, renaming the field to
'__do_not_use_${fieldname}' and then writing setters/getters and converting the
existing code to using them. When all fields are done, we can move ast_channel
to a C file from channel.h and lop off the '__do_not_use_'.
This patch sets up main/channel_interal_api.c to be the only file that actually
accesses the ast_channel's fields directly. The intent would be for any API
functions in channel.c to use the accessor functions. No more monkeying around
with channel internals. We should use our own APIs.
The interesting changes in this patch are the addition of
channel_internal_api.c, the moving of the AST_DATA stuff from channel.c to
channel_internal_api.c (note: the AST_DATA stuff will have to be reworked to
use accessor functions when ast_channel is really opaque), and some re-working
of the way channel iterators/callbacks are handled so as to avoid creating fake
ast_channels on the stack to pass in matching data by directly accessing fields
(since "name" is a stringfield and the fake channel doesn't init the
stringfields, you can't use the ast_channel_name_set() function). I went with
ast_channel_name(chan) for a getter, and ast_channel_name_set(chan, name) for a
setter.
The majority of the grunt-work for this change was done by writing a semantic
patch using Coccinelle ( http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ ).
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1655/
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r258775 | tilghman | 2010-04-25 13:09:05 -0500 (Sun, 25 Apr 2010) | 6 lines
When StopMonitor is called, ensure that it will not be restarted by a channel event.
(closes issue #16590)
Reported by: kkm
Patches:
resmonitor-16590-trunk.239289.diff uploaded by kkm (license 888)
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r254235 | jpeeler | 2010-03-23 19:37:23 -0500 (Tue, 23 Mar 2010) | 72 lines
Ensure that monitor recordings are written to the correct location (again)
This is an extension to 248860. As such the dialplan test has been extended:
; non absolute path, not combined
exten => 5040, 1, monitor(wav,tmp/jeff/monitor_test)
exten => 5040, n, dial(sip/5001)
; absolute path, not combined
exten => 5041, 1, monitor(wav,/tmp/jeff/monitor_test2)
exten => 5041, n, dial(sip/5001)
; no path, not combined
exten => 5042, 1, monitor(wav,monitor_test3)
exten => 5042, n, dial(sip/5001)
; combined: changemonitor from non absolute to no path (leaves tmp/jeff)
exten => 5043, 1, monitor(wav,tmp/jeff/monitor_test4,m)
exten => 5043, n, changemonitor(monitor_test5)
exten => 5043, n, dial(sip/5001)
; combined: changemonitor from no path to non absolute path
exten => 5044, 1, monitor(wav,monitor_test6,m)
exten => 5044, n, changemonitor(tmp/jeff/monitor_test7) ; this wasn't possible before
exten => 5044, n, dial(sip/5001)
; non absolute path, combined
exten => 5045, 1, monitor(wav,tmp/jeff/monitor_test8,m)
exten => 5045, n, dial(sip/5001)
; absolute path, combined
exten => 5046, 1, monitor(wav,/tmp/jeff/monitor_test9,m)
exten => 5046, n, dial(sip/5001)
; no path, combined
exten => 5047, 1, monitor(wav,monitor_test10,m)
exten => 5047, n, dial(sip/5001)
; combined: changemonitor from non absolute to absolute (leaves tmp/jeff)
exten => 5048, 1, monitor(wav,tmp/jeff/monitor_test11,m)
exten => 5048, n, changemonitor(/tmp/jeff/monitor_test12)
exten => 5048, n, dial(sip/5001)
; combined: changemonitor from absolute to non absolute (leaves /tmp/jeff)
exten => 5049, 1, monitor(wav,/tmp/jeff/monitor_test13,m)
exten => 5049, n, changemonitor(tmp/jeff/monitor_test14)
exten => 5049, n, dial(sip/5001)
; combined: changemonitor from no path to absolute
exten => 5050, 1, monitor(wav,monitor_test15,m)
exten => 5050, n, changemonitor(/tmp/jeff/monitor_test16)
exten => 5050, n, dial(sip/5001)
; combined: changemonitor from absolute to no path (leaves /tmp/jeff)
exten => 5051, 1, monitor(wav,/tmp/jeff/monitor_test17,m)
exten => 5051, n, changemonitor(monitor_test18)
exten => 5051, n, dial(sip/5001)
; not combined: changemonitor from non absolute to no path (leaves tmp/jeff)
exten => 5052, 1, monitor(wav,tmp/jeff/monitor_test19)
exten => 5052, n, changemonitor(monitor_test20)
exten => 5052, n, dial(sip/5001)
; not combined: changemonitor from no path to non absolute
exten => 5053, 1, monitor(wav,monitor_test21)
exten => 5053, n, changemonitor(tmp/jeff/monitor_test22)
exten => 5053, n, dial(sip/5001)
; not combined: changemonitor from non absolute to absolute (leaves tmp/jeff)
exten => 5054, 1, monitor(wav,tmp/jeff/monitor_test23)
exten => 5054, n, changemonitor(/tmp/jeff/monitor_test24)
exten => 5054, n, dial(sip/5001)
; not combined: changemonitor from absolute to non absolute (leaves /tmp/jeff)
exten => 5055, 1, monitor(wav,/tmp/jeff/monitor_test24)
exten => 5055, n, changemonitor(tmp/jeff/monitor_test25)
exten => 5055, n, dial(sip/5001)
; not combined: changemonitor from no path to absolute
exten => 5056, 1, monitor(wav,monitor_test26)
exten => 5056, n, changemonitor(/tmp/jeff/monitor_test27)
exten => 5056, n, dial(sip/5001)
; not combined: changemonitor from absolute to no path (leaves /tmp/jeff)
exten => 5057, 1, monitor(wav,/tmp/jeff/monitor_test28)
exten => 5057, n, changemonitor(monitor_test29)
exten => 5057, n, dial(sip/5001)
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r248860 | jpeeler | 2010-02-25 15:22:06 -0600 (Thu, 25 Feb 2010) | 18 lines
Ensure that monitor recordings are written to the correct location (again)
This is an extension to 248757. As such the dialplan test has been extended:
exten => 5040, 1, monitor(wav,tmp/jeff/monitor_test,b)
exten => 5040, n, dial(sip/5001)
exten => 5041, 1, monitor(wav,/tmp/jeff/monitor_test2,b)
exten => 5041, n, dial(sip/5001)
exten => 5042, 1, monitor(wav,monitor_test3,b)
exten => 5042, n, dial(sip/5001)
exten => 5043, 1, monitor(wav,tmp/jeff/monitor_test3,m)
exten => 5043, n, changemonitor(monitor_test4)
exten => 5043, n, dial(sip/5001)
exten => 5044, 1, monitor(wav,monitor_test4,m)
exten => 5044, n, changemonitor(tmp/jeff/monitor_test5) ; this looks to fail by design and emits a warning
exten => 5044, n, dial(sip/5001)
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r248757 | jpeeler | 2010-02-25 12:06:54 -0600 (Thu, 25 Feb 2010) | 15 lines
Ensure that monitor recordings are written to the correct location.
Recordings should be placed in the monitor directory when a non-absolute path
is used.
Exact dialplan used for testing:
exten => 5040, 1, monitor(wav,tmp/jeff/monitor_test,b)
exten => 5040, n, dial(sip/5001)
exten => 5041, 1, monitor(wav,/tmp/jeff/monitor_test2,b)
exten => 5041, n, dial(sip/5001)
exten => 5042, 1, monitor(wav,monitor_test3,b)
exten => 5042, n, dial(sip/5001)
ABE-2101
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r235940 | jpeeler | 2009-12-21 13:43:41 -0600 (Mon, 21 Dec 2009) | 13 lines
Change Monitor to not assume file to write to does not contain pathing.
227944 changed the fname_base argument to always append the configured monitor
path. This change was necessary to properly compare files for uniqueness.
If a full path is given though, nothing needs to be appended and that is
handled correctly now.
(closes issue #16377)
(closes issue #16376)
Reported by: bcnit
Patches:
res_monitor.c-issue16376-1.patch uploaded by dant (license 670)
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r227944 | jpeeler | 2009-11-04 17:47:08 -0600 (Wed, 04 Nov 2009) | 14 lines
Fix incorrect filename comparsion after monitor file change
The logic to detect if a requested file is indeed a different file from the
current file was incorrect. The main issue being confusion of the use of
filename_base which was previously set without pathing information and then
compared to another full path. Robust file comparison logic has been added
to properly check if two files are the same even if symlinks are used.
(closes issue #15313)
Reported by: caspy
Patches:
20091103__issue15313__1.4.diff.txt uploaded by jpeeler (license 325)
but mostly tilghman's work
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This patch provides a new implementation of the optional API support defined
in asterisk/optional_api.h; this new version provides solves compatibility
issues with the use of linker version scripts for suppressing global symbols.
In addition, there is now a functional (and tested!) implementation for Mac OS/X,
so module writers no longer need to use special tests before calling optional
API functions. All future implementations must provide these same semantics,
so that module writers can rely on them.
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Moved more static docs to XML (pplications and manager actions):
Monitor, StopMonitor, ChangeMonitor, PauseMonitor, UnpauseMonitor.
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This patch adds 'const' tags to a number of Asterisk APIs where they are appropriate (where the API already demanded that the function argument not be modified, but the compiler was not informed of that fact). The list includes:
- CLI command handlers
- CLI command handler arguments
- AGI command handlers
- AGI command handler arguments
- Dialplan application handler arguments
- Speech engine API function arguments
In addition, various file-scope and function-scope constant arrays got 'const' and/or 'static' qualifiers where they were missing.
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/251/
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There is a lot that could be said about this, but the patch is a big
improvement for performance, stability, code maintainability,
and ease of future code development.
The channel list is no longer an unsorted linked list. The main container
for channels is an astobj2 hash table. All of the code related to searching
for channels or iterating active channels has been rewritten. Let n be
the number of active channels. Iterating the channel list has gone from
O(n^2) to O(n). Searching for a channel by name went from O(n) to O(1).
Searching for a channel by extension is still O(n), but uses a new method
for doing so, which is more efficient.
The ast_channel object is now a reference counted object. The benefits
here are plentiful. Some benefits directly related to issues in the
previous code include:
1) When threads other than the channel thread owning a channel wanted
access to a channel, it had to hold the lock on it to ensure that it didn't
go away. This is no longer a requirement. Holding a reference is
sufficient.
2) There are places that now require less dealing with channel locks.
3) There are places where channel locks are held for much shorter periods
of time.
4) There are places where dealing with more than one channel at a time becomes
_MUCH_ easier. ChanSpy is a great example of this. Writing code in the
future that deals with multiple channels will be much easier.
Some additional information regarding channel locking and reference count
handling can be found in channel.h, where a new section has been added that
discusses some of the rules associated with it.
Mark Michelson also assisted with the development of this patch. He did the
conversion of ChanSpy and introduced a new API, ast_autochan, which makes it
much easier to deal with holding on to a channel pointer for an extended period
of time and having it get automatically updated if the channel gets masqueraded.
Mark was also a huge help in the code review process.
Thanks to David Vossel for his assistance with this branch, as well. David
did the conversion of the DAHDIScan application by making it become a wrapper
for ChanSpy internally.
The changes come from the svn/asterisk/team/russell/ast_channel_ao2 branch.
Review: http://reviewboard.digium.com/r/203/
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