From d77945ef78aead05a3adb6307ccedc12d0ca49ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:16:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - Just return FAILURE & allow NULL without emmidiate error

---
 Zend/zend_interfaces.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Zend/zend_interfaces.c b/Zend/zend_interfaces.c
index 59203588ffd..133e3cbbd13 100755
--- a/Zend/zend_interfaces.c
+++ b/Zend/zend_interfaces.c
@@ -409,8 +409,8 @@ int zend_user_serialize(zval *object, unsigned char **buffer, zend_uint *buf_len
 		switch(Z_TYPE_P(retval)) {
 		case IS_NULL:
 			/* we could also make this '*buf_len = 0' but this allows to skip variables */
-			result = FAILURE;
-			break;
+			zval_ptr_dtor(&retval);
+			return FAILURE;
 		case IS_STRING:
 			*buffer = estrndup(Z_STRVAL_P(retval), Z_STRLEN_P(retval));
 			*buf_len = Z_STRLEN_P(retval);