New submission from Bill Parker:
In reviewing calls to strcpy(, ""), I found three instances which could
be re-written as * = '\0'; which would save the minor overhead of a
function call. The patch file is below:
--- install.c.orig 2015-05-20 14:11:27.723397005
Bill Parker added the comment:
At the moment, I'm not sure if it's needed or not, but if it's only an
issue with XP, then it might not be worth fixing...:)
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 1:35 PM, STINNER Victor
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> STINNER Victor added the comment:
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Bill Parker added the comment:
Per Ned Deily, I did send 'ffi.c.patch' to the guys upstream at:
https://sourceware.org/libffi/
So hopefully they can review and fix it in the next release :)...
Given that Python is spread out, perhaps when a component is selected, it could
disp
Bill Parker added the comment:
Addition of file 'ffi.c.patch'...
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file38849/ffi.c.patch
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New submission from Bill Parker:
Hello All,
In reviewing code for Python-3.4.3 in directory
'Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/arm', file 'ffi.c', I found a pair
of calls to calloc() which do not test for a return value
of NULL, indicating failure. The patch file below
Bill Parker added the comment:
In directory 'PC', file '_msi.c', I found another call to
malloc() which was not checked for a return value of NULL
which would indicate failure. The new patch file is below:
--- _msi.c.orig 2015-04-02 15:01:02.882326352 -0700
+++ _msi.c
Bill Parker added the comment:
I would check 23855 as well, since the malloc() missing a sanity check,
which could be a more serious issue ..
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Berker Peksag
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> Berker Peksag added the comment:
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> Thanks for the patch, Bill. If you wan
New submission from Bill Parker:
Hello All,
In reviewing code in directory Python-3.4.3/Modules, file
'mmapmodule', I found a call to 'lseek()' without a check for
a return value of -1, indicating failure. The patch file below
corrects this issue (diff -u format):
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New submission from Bill Parker:
Hello All,
In reviewing code in Python-3.4.3/PC/_msi.c, I found a call to malloc() at
line 326 in function 'static PyObject* msierror(int status)' in which the call
is made and assigned to variable 'res', but no check for NULL, indicat
