[Python-checkins] closes bpo-35623: Fix integer overflow when sorting large lists (GH-11380)

[Miss Islington (bot)]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a5955b0895aa011b0beff1ceb6539b2ff8888425
commit: a5955b0895aa011b0beff1ceb6539b2ff8888425
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-01-01T18:25:23-08:00
summary:

closes bpo-35623: Fix integer overflow when sorting large lists (GH-11380)


There is already a `Py_ssize_t i` defined at function scope that is used
for similar loops. By removing the local `int i` declaration that `i` is
used, which has the appropriate type.
(cherry picked from commit f8b534477a2a51d85ea1663530f685f805f2b247)

Co-authored-by: sth <sth.dev at tejp.de>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-31-02-37-20.bpo-35623.24AQhY.rst
M Objects/listobject.c

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-31-02-37-20.bpo-35623.24AQhY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-31-02-37-20.bpo-35623.24AQhY.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6e3df4dc5d4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-12-31-02-37-20.bpo-35623.24AQhY.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix a crash when sorting very long lists. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index c8ffeff09368..de73b8bf80fd 100644
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -2232,7 +2232,6 @@ list_sort_impl(PyListObject *self, PyObject *keyfunc, int reverse)
         int ints_are_bounded = 1;
 
         /* Prove that assumption by checking every key. */
-        int i;
         for (i=0; i < saved_ob_size; i++) {
 
             if (keys_are_in_tuples &&