Final fix for chef-492 - makes the context for the template provider always be distinct from the data we feed it in the variables method, to make sure we don't inadvertantly leak the node object into other persistent data.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/chef/lib/chef/node/attribute.rb b/chef/lib/chef/node/attribute.rb
index e51ad29c22..ad8a493769 100644
--- a/chef/lib/chef/node/attribute.rb
+++ b/chef/lib/chef/node/attribute.rb
@@ -398,6 +398,14 @@ class Chef
         end
       end
 
+      def to_hash
+        result = determine_value(current_override, current_attribute, current_default)
+        if result.class == Hash
+          result
+        else
+          result.to_hash
+        end
+      end
 
     end
   end