New submission from Jim Wright:
We discovered this issue whilst using h5py (HDF5 python library) under python
3.5.2 on Ubuntu 16.04.2 x86_64. The construct used is very dubious, and I will
separately be raising an issue with the h5py team. However I thought you might
like to know there is a possible way to cause a segmentation violation using
pure python.
There appears to be a new implementation of dictionaries in 3.6 vs 3.5, so I
compiled up 3.6.1 and it also segfaults, but not so obviously related to the
dictionary iteration (both stack traces are included below).
Regards, Jim.
$ cat segfault.py
#!/usr/bin/python3
class CyclicObject:
def __init__(self, key, register):
self.key = key
self.self = self
self.register = register
self.register[self.key] = None
def __del__(self):
del self.register[self.key]
while True:
register = { }
objs = set([CyclicObject(i, register) for i in range(1)])
while len(objs) > 0:
objs.remove(next(iter(objs)))
try:
list(register.items())
except RuntimeError as err:
print(err)
$ python3 --version
Python 3.5.2
$ gdb --args python3 segfault.py
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.11.1-0ubuntu1~16.04) 7.11.1
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/python3 segfault.py
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
dictionary changed size during iteration
dictionary changed size during iteration
dictionary changed size during iteration
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
dictiter_iternextitem.lto_priv () at ../Objects/dictobject.c:3158
3158../Objects/dictobject.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0 dictiter_iternextitem.lto_priv () at ../Objects/dictobject.c:3158
#1 0x0059f024 in listextend.lto_priv () at ../Objects/listobject.c:855
#2 0x0058fd1c in list_init.lto_priv () at ../Objects/listobject.c:2314
#3 0x0055d17c in type_call.lto_priv () at ../Objects/typeobject.c:905
#4 0x005b7167 in PyObject_Call () at ../Objects/abstract.c:2165
#5 0x00528d06 in do_call (nk=, na=,
pp_stack=0x7fffd9b0, func=) at ../Python/ceval.c:4936
#6 call_function (oparg=, pp_stack=0x7fffd9b0) at
../Python/ceval.c:4732
#7 PyEval_EvalFrameEx () at ../Python/ceval.c:3236
#8 0x0052d2e3 in _PyEval_EvalCodeWithName () at ../Python/ceval.c:4018
#9 0x0052dfdf in PyEval_EvalCodeEx () at ../Python/ceval.c:4039
#10 PyEval_EvalCode (co=, globals=,
locals=) at ../Python/ceval.c:777
#11 0x005fd2c2 in run_mod () at ../Python/pythonrun.c:976
#12 0x005ff76a in PyRun_FileExFlags () at ../Python/pythonrun.c:929
#13 0x005ff95c in PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags () at
../Python/pythonrun.c:396
#14 0x0063e7d6 in run_file (p_cf=0x7fffdc20, filename=0xa73280
L"segfault.py", fp=0xad19a0) at ../Modules/main.c:318
#15 Py_Main () at ../Modules/main.c:768
#16 0x004cfe41 in main () at ../Programs/python.c:65
#17 0x77811830 in __libc_start_main (main=0x4cfd60 , argc=2,
argv=0x7fffde38, init=, fini=,
rtld_fini=,
stack_end=0x7fffde28) at ../csu/libc-start.c:291
#18 0x005d5f29 in _start ()
$ ./python --version
Python 3.6.1
$ gdb --args ./python ./segfault.py
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.11.1-0ubuntu1~16.04) 7.11.1
(gdb) r
Starting program: ./python ./segfault.py
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
dictionary changed size during iteration
dictionary changed size during iteration
dictionary changed size during iteration
dictionary changed size during iteration
dictionary changed size during iteration
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
_PyObject_Alloc (ctx=0x0, elsize=28, nelem=1, use_calloc=0) at
Objects/obmalloc.c:1258
1258if ((pool->freeblock = *(block **)bp) != NULL) {
(gdb) bt
#0 _PyObject_Alloc (ctx=0x0, elsize=28, nelem=1, use_calloc=0) at
Objects/obmalloc.c:1258
#1 _PyObject_Malloc (ctx=0x0, nbytes=28) at Objects/obmalloc.c:1437
#2 0x00490732 in _PyLong_New (size=1) at Objects/longobject.c:196
#3 PyLong_FromLong (ival=) at Objects/longobject.c:254
#4 0x00542fda in _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (f=,
throwflag=) at Python/ceval.c:3060
#5 0x0053d671 in PyEval_EvalFrameEx (throwflag=0, f=0x77fa1648) at
Python/ceval.c:718
#6 _PyFunction_FastCall (co=, args=, nargs=1,
globals=globals@entry=0x77f452d0) at Python/ceval.c:4880
#7 0x0053e521 in fast_function (kwnames=0x0, nargs=,
stack=, func=0x77eae510) at Python/ceval.c:4915
#8 call_function (pp_stack=pp_stack@entry=0x7fffd920, oparg=oparg@entry=1,
kwnames=kwnames@entry=0x0) at Python/ceval.c:4819
#9 0x00542c17 in _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (f=,
throwflag=) at Python/ceval.c:3284
#10 0x0053e015 i
