Bug #41437: Value stored in 'case' lacks charset, causes segfault

When substituting system constant functions with a constant result
the server was not expecting that the function may return NULL.
Fixed by checking for NULL and returning Item_null (in the relevant
collation) if the result of the system constant function was NULL.

mysql-test/r/mysql.result

@@ -186,4 +186,6 @@ delimiter
 2
 2
 2
+@z:='1'	@z=database()
+1	NULL
 End of 5.0 tests

mysql-test/t/mysql.test

@@ -309,4 +309,9 @@ EOF
 --exec $MYSQL -c < $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/bug38158.sql 2>&1
 remove_file $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/bug38158.sql;
 
+#
+# Bug #41437: Value stored in 'case' lacks charset, causees segfault
+#
+--exec $MYSQL -e "select @z:='1',@z=database()"
+
 --echo End of 5.0 tests

sql/item_strfunc.cc

@@ -1696,6 +1696,12 @@ Item *Item_func_sysconst::safe_charset_converter(CHARSET_INFO *tocs)
   Item_string *conv;
   uint conv_errors;
   String tmp, cstr, *ostr= val_str(&tmp);
+  if (null_value)
+  {
+    Item *null_item= new Item_null((char *) fully_qualified_func_name());
+    null_item->collation.set (tocs);
+    return null_item;
+  }
   cstr.copy(ostr->ptr(), ostr->length(), ostr->charset(), tocs, &conv_errors);
   if (conv_errors ||
       !(conv= new Item_static_string_func(fully_qualified_func_name(),