[ python-Bugs-1353504 ] Python drops core when stdin is bogus

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Bugs item #1353504, was opened at 2005-11-10 16:16
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Python drops core when stdin is bogus

Initial Comment:
Someone here at work had the bright idea to execute a
Python
script from a Solaris 10 ~/.dtprofile file. 
Apparently, at the time
that script is run stdin is bogus.  Python core dumps
with this
gdb backtrace:

#0  0x0807d290 in PyDict_SetItem (op=0x815b79c,
key=0x8163f20, value=0x0)
    at ../Objects/dictobject.c:549
#1  0x0807e0f7 in PyDict_SetItemString (v=0x815b79c,
key=0x8118df2 "stdin",
    item=0x0) at ../Objects/dictobject.c:1988
#2  0x080e0d03 in _PySys_Init () at
../Python/sysmodule.c:977
#3  0x080ddfdb in Py_InitializeEx (install_sigs=1) at
../Python/pythonrun.c:190
#4  0x080dfa89 in Py_Initialize () at
../Python/pythonrun.c:283
#5  0x0805cd55 in Py_Main (argc=3, argv=0x8047c08) at
../Modules/main.c:418
#6  0x0805ca13 in main (argc=3, argv=0x8047c08) at
../Modules/python.c:23

(This is from 2.4.2, but it also happens in 2.3.4.)

Looking at the code in _PySys_Init it calls

    sysin = PyFile_FromFile(stdin, "<stdin>", "r", NULL);

which returns NULL.  In PyFile_FromFile it creates a new
PyFileObject, then initializes it by calling a static
function,
fill_file_fields.  This apparently fails, causing a NULL
pointer return.  Back in _PySys_Init it checks
PyErr_Occurred,
but fill_file_fields never raised an except.  The NULL
pointer
is passed to PyDict_SetItemString and havoc ensues.

I haven't checked CVS, but 2.4 (and probably 2.3) should be
fixed.  I suggest raising an IOError in
fill_file_fields instead
of just setting f to NULL and returning it.


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