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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2017-08-21 16:12:58 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-08-21 16:12:58 (GMT)
commit84524454d0ba77d299741c47bd0f5841ac3f66ce (patch)
treee6ef68ff4bde65b33d521d7c910524527fd4a6c7
parentf432a3234f9f2ee09bd40be03e06bf72865ee375 (diff)
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bpo-31247: xmlrpc.server: break reference cycle (#3166)
xmlrpc.server now explicitly breaks reference cycles when using sys.exc_info() in code handling exceptions.
-rw-r--r--Lib/xmlrpc/server.py36
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-08-21-17-50-27.bpo-31247.8S3zJp.rst2
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py b/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
index bb86fe6..88d0eec 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
@@ -270,10 +270,14 @@ class SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher:
except:
# report exception back to server
exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb = sys.exc_info()
- response = dumps(
- Fault(1, "%s:%s" % (exc_type, exc_value)),
- encoding=self.encoding, allow_none=self.allow_none,
- )
+ try:
+ response = dumps(
+ Fault(1, "%s:%s" % (exc_type, exc_value)),
+ encoding=self.encoding, allow_none=self.allow_none,
+ )
+ finally:
+ # Break reference cycle
+ exc_type = exc_value = exc_tb = None
return response.encode(self.encoding, 'xmlcharrefreplace')
@@ -365,10 +369,14 @@ class SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher:
)
except:
exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb = sys.exc_info()
- results.append(
- {'faultCode' : 1,
- 'faultString' : "%s:%s" % (exc_type, exc_value)}
- )
+ try:
+ results.append(
+ {'faultCode' : 1,
+ 'faultString' : "%s:%s" % (exc_type, exc_value)}
+ )
+ finally:
+ # Break reference cycle
+ exc_type = exc_value = exc_tb = None
return results
def _dispatch(self, method, params):
@@ -630,10 +638,14 @@ class MultiPathXMLRPCServer(SimpleXMLRPCServer):
# (each dispatcher should have handled their own
# exceptions)
exc_type, exc_value = sys.exc_info()[:2]
- response = dumps(
- Fault(1, "%s:%s" % (exc_type, exc_value)),
- encoding=self.encoding, allow_none=self.allow_none)
- response = response.encode(self.encoding, 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+ try:
+ response = dumps(
+ Fault(1, "%s:%s" % (exc_type, exc_value)),
+ encoding=self.encoding, allow_none=self.allow_none)
+ response = response.encode(self.encoding, 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+ finally:
+ # Break reference cycle
+ exc_type = exc_value = None
return response
class CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-08-21-17-50-27.bpo-31247.8S3zJp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-08-21-17-50-27.bpo-31247.8S3zJp.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6879384
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-08-21-17-50-27.bpo-31247.8S3zJp.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+xmlrpc.server now explicitly breaks reference cycles when using
+sys.exc_info() in code handling exceptions.