Merge pull request #2616 from jaymzh/whitelist

Fix attribute whitelisting

2 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/whitelist.rb b/lib/chef/whitelist.rb
index ad52215f11..86c229d22c 100644
--- a/lib/chef/whitelist.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/whitelist.rb
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ class Chef
         all_data = all_data[part]
       end
 
-      unless all_data[parts[-1]]
+      # Note: You can't do all_data[parts[-1]] here because the value
+      # may be false-y
+      unless all_data.key?(parts[-1])
         Chef::Log.warn("Could not find whitelist attribute #{item}.")
         return nil
       end
diff --git a/spec/unit/node_spec.rb b/spec/unit/node_spec.rb
index 695da8d671..0bccc6d482 100644
--- a/spec/unit/node_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/unit/node_spec.rb
@@ -1213,6 +1213,40 @@ describe Chef::Node do
           node.save
         end
 
+        it "should save false-y whitelisted attributes" do
+          Chef::Config[:default_attribute_whitelist] = [
+            "foo/bar/baz"
+          ]
+
+          data = {
+            "default" => {
+              "foo" => {
+                "bar" => {
+                  "baz" => false,
+                },
+                "other" => {
+                  "stuff" => true,
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          }
+
+          selected_data = {
+            "default" => {
+              "foo" => {
+                "bar" => {
+                  "baz" => false,
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          }
+
+          node.name("falsey-monkey")
+          allow(node).to receive(:for_json).and_return(data)
+          expect(@rest).to receive(:put_rest).with("nodes/falsey-monkey", selected_data).and_return("foo")
+          node.save
+        end
+
         it "should not save any attributes if the whitelist is empty" do
           Chef::Config[:automatic_attribute_whitelist] = []