New submission from Alexander Sturm :
This issue can be reproduced using Python 3.5.2 - 3.5.5 compiled with VS2015
(tested both the official Python builds as well as local builds using VS2015
Version 14.0.25431.01 Update 3) on 64-bit Windows.
To reproduce, run the attached file (or python -c "import operator;
operator.attrgetter('x'*100)").
The segfault itself occurs in attrgetter_new [1], while scanning for dots
inside a unicode string. From my reading of the code, the code itself is
actually correct - instead, it triggers a compiler bug in VS2015, which causes
it to miscompile the code by applying an incorrect optimization.
The optimization VS2015 applies is twofold: It uses SIMD instructions to avoid
looking at every byte of the input string individually, and it tries to
eliminate the condition in PyUnicode_READ [2] by executing all three branches
(UCS1, UCS2 and UCS4) at once and then in a separate step discarding the
results for the two branches that would not be taken.
When combining these optimizations, the generated code incorrectly only checks
the precondition of the UCS1 branch to decide whether it can use the optimized
SIMD version. Since the UCS1 branch looks at 8 bytes of the buffer in each
iteration, it checks whether the buffer contains at least 8 bytes. However,
each iteration of the UCS2/UCS4 branches look at 16/32 bytes, respectively.
As a result, when passing a UCS1 string to attrgetter(), we end up reading 24
bytes past the end of the buffer for every 8 bytes the string contains. In the
reproduction example, we thus read about 24 MB past the buffer, almost
guaranteeing a crash.
The issue does not occur when compiling Python using VS2017 (i.e.
PlatformToolset v141, MSVC version 14.13.26128). Presumably this means the
compiler bug has been fixed upstream.
[1]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.5.5/Modules/_operator.c#L587
[2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.5.5/Include/unicodeobject.h#L521
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components: Interpreter Core
files: repro.py
messages: 314987
nosy: asturm
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Segmentation fault in operator.attrgetter
versions: Python 3.5
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47521/repro.py
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