[New-bugs-announce] [issue17703] Trash can mechanism segfault during interpreter finalization in Python 2.7.4

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

New submission from Marc-Andre Lemburg:

A user reported a segfault when using our mxURL extension with Python 2.7.4. Previous Python versions do not show this behavior, so it's new in Python 2.7.4.

The extension uses an Py_AtExit() function to clean up among other things a reference to a dictionary from another module. The dictionary deallocation then causes the segfault:

$ gdb /usr/local/bin/python2.7
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Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/python2.7...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/python2.7
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr  8 2013, 15:51:19)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
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>>> import mx.URL
>>> import sys
>>> sys.exit()

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x08091201 in dict_dealloc (mp=0xb7b2813c) at Objects/dictobject.c:1005
1005        Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_BEGIN(mp)
(gdb) bt
#0  0x08091201 in dict_dealloc (mp=0xb7b2813c) at Objects/dictobject.c:1005
#1  0xb7875928 in mxURLModule_Cleanup () at mx/URL/mxURL/mxURL.c:2789
#2  0x0810553f in call_ll_exitfuncs () at Python/pythonrun.c:1763
#3  Py_Finalize () at Python/pythonrun.c:554
#4  0x08104bac in Py_Exit () at Python/pythonrun.c:1772
#5  handle_system_exit () at Python/pythonrun.c:1146
#6  0x0810517d in PyErr_PrintEx (set_sys_last_vars=<value optimized out>)
at Python/pythonrun.c:1156
#7  0x081058dd in PyRun_InteractiveOneFlags (fp=0xb7f8b420,
filename=0x815f9c0 "<stdin>", flags=0xbffffc4c) at Python/pythonrun.c:855
#8  0x08105a68 in PyRun_InteractiveLoopFlags (fp=0xb7f8b420,
filename=0x815f9c0 "<stdin>", flags=0xbffffc4c) at Python/pythonrun.c:772
#9  0x081062f2 in PyRun_AnyFileExFlags (fp=0xb7f8b420, filename=0x815f9c0
"<stdin>", closeit=0, flags=0xbffffc4c) at Python/pythonrun.c:741
#10 0x0805bb59 in Py_Main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffd34) at Modules/main.c:640
#11 0x0805abeb in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffd34) at ./Modules/python.c:23
(gdb)

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assignee: pitrou
components: Interpreter Core
messages: 186627
nosy: lemburg, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Trash can mechanism segfault during interpreter finalization in Python 2.7.4
versions: Python 2.7

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