[issue39776] Crash in decimal module in heavy-multithreaded scenario

[Evgeny Boytsov]

New submission from Evgeny Boytsov <boytsovea at yandex.ru>:

Hello everybody!

We are using Python 3.7 running at CentOS 7 x64. Python is used as a library to create dynamic extensions for our app server. 

Some time ago we began to experience crashes in decimal module in some heavy-multithreaded scenarios. After some testing and debugging I was able to reproduce it without our own code using only pybind11 library to simplify embedding (in real app we are using boost.python).


I've built python 3.8 with clang 7 and address sanitizer enabled and got error "use-after-free" with some additional data.

Please find attached C++ source file, python module and ASAN output. Is it really a bug (most probably - data race) or there is something wrong with such embedding scenario?

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components: Interpreter Core
files: decimal_crash.zip
messages: 362807
nosy: boytsovea
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Crash in decimal module in heavy-multithreaded scenario
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file48923/decimal_crash.zip

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