Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()

if all other iterators were very advanced before.

3 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
index 90e85a9..efd50ba 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
@@ -1267,6 +1267,14 @@ class TestBasicOps(unittest.TestCase):
         self.pickletest(a, compare=ans)
         self.pickletest(b, compare=ans)
 
+    # Issue 13454: Crash when deleting backward iterator from tee()
+    def test_tee_del_backward(self):
+        forward, backward = tee(range(20000000))
+        for i in forward:
+            pass
+
+        del backward
+
     def test_StopIteration(self):
         self.assertRaises(StopIteration, next, zip())
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5b8ad78..9999d3f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
+  if all other iterators were very advanced before.
+
 - Issue #12411: Fix to cgi.parse_multipart to correctly use bytes boundaries
   and bytes data. Patch by Jonas Wagner.
 
diff --git a/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c b/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
index 9115b67..8d20ea0 100644
--- a/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
@@ -473,14 +473,31 @@ teedataobject_traverse(teedataobject *tdo, visitproc visit, void * arg)
     return 0;
 }
 
+static void
+teedataobject_safe_decref(PyObject *obj)
+{
+    while (obj && Py_TYPE(obj) == &teedataobject_type &&
+           Py_REFCNT(obj) == 1) {
+        PyObject *nextlink = ((teedataobject *)obj)->nextlink;
+        ((teedataobject *)obj)->nextlink = NULL;
+        Py_DECREF(obj);
+        obj = nextlink;
+    }
+    Py_XDECREF(obj);
+}
+
 static int
 teedataobject_clear(teedataobject *tdo)
 {
     int i;
+    PyObject *tmp;
+
     Py_CLEAR(tdo->it);
     for (i=0 ; i<tdo->numread ; i++)
         Py_CLEAR(tdo->values[i]);
-    Py_CLEAR(tdo->nextlink);
+    tmp = tdo->nextlink;
+    tdo->nextlink = NULL;
+    teedataobject_safe_decref(tmp);
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -617,6 +634,8 @@ tee_next(teeobject *to)
 
     if (to->index >= LINKCELLS) {
         link = teedataobject_jumplink(to->dataobj);
+        if (link == NULL)
+            return NULL;
         Py_DECREF(to->dataobj);
         to->dataobj = (teedataobject *)link;
         to->index = 0;