[issue36736] Python crashes when calling win32file.LockFileEx

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> added the comment:

> win32file.LockFileEx(h, win32con.LOCKFILE_EXCLUSIVE_LOCK, 5, 5, None)

This is a third-party issue in the PyWin32 package. win32file.LockFileEx shouldn't allow passing None for the required 5th parameter `ol` (i.e. the lpOverlapped parameter of WINAPI LockFileEx [1]). Or at least it should allocate a default overlapped record in this case, with the offset set to 0. Passing a NULL pointer leads to an access-violation exception.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-lockfileex

FYI, setting a lock on the file is unecessary in this case. You created the kernel file object without data-access sharing (i.e. shareMode == 0). Until the handle is closed, opening the file again with read or write data access will fail as a sharing violation (32).

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nosy: +eryksun
resolution:  -> third party
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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