[3.6] bpo-29854: Fix segfault in call_readline() (GH-728)

If history-length is set in .inputrc, and the history file is double the
history size (or more), history_get(N) returns NULL, and python
segfaults. Fix that by checking for NULL return value.

It seems that the root cause is incorrect handling of bigger history in
readline, but Python should not segfault even if readline returns
unexpected value.

This issue affects only GNU readline. When using libedit emulation
system history size option does not work.

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_readline.py b/Lib/test/test_readline.py
index 06a9149..9c979652 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_readline.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_readline.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import subprocess
 import sys
 import tempfile
 import unittest
-from test.support import import_module, unlink, TESTFN
+from test.support import import_module, unlink, temp_dir, TESTFN
 from test.support.script_helper import assert_python_ok
 
 # Skip tests if there is no readline module
@@ -210,13 +210,57 @@ print("history", ascii(readline.get_history_item(1)))
         self.assertIn(b"result " + expected + b"\r\n", output)
         self.assertIn(b"history " + expected + b"\r\n", output)
 
+    # We have 2 reasons to skip this test:
+    # - readline: history size was added in 6.0
+    #   See https://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/CHANGES
+    # - editline: history size is broken on OS X 10.11.6.
+    #   Newer versions were not tested yet.
+    @unittest.skipIf(readline._READLINE_VERSION < 0x600,
+                     "this readline version does not support history-size")
+    @unittest.skipIf(is_editline,
+                     "editline history size configuration is broken")
+    def test_history_size(self):
+        history_size = 10
+        with temp_dir() as test_dir:
+            inputrc = os.path.join(test_dir, "inputrc")
+            with open(inputrc, "wb") as f:
+                f.write(b"set history-size %d\n" % history_size)
+
+            history_file = os.path.join(test_dir, "history")
+            with open(history_file, "wb") as f:
+                # history_size * 2 items crashes readline
+                data = b"".join(b"item %d\n" % i
+                                for i in range(history_size * 2))
+                f.write(data)
+
+            script = """
+import os
+import readline
+
+history_file = os.environ["HISTORY_FILE"]
+readline.read_history_file(history_file)
+input()
+readline.write_history_file(history_file)
+"""
+
+            env = dict(os.environ)
+            env["INPUTRC"] = inputrc
+            env["HISTORY_FILE"] = history_file
+
+            run_pty(script, input=b"last input\r", env=env)
+
+            with open(history_file, "rb") as f:
+                lines = f.readlines()
+            self.assertEqual(len(lines), history_size)
+            self.assertEqual(lines[-1].strip(), b"last input")
+
 
-def run_pty(script, input=b"dummy input\r"):
+def run_pty(script, input=b"dummy input\r", env=None):
     pty = import_module('pty')
     output = bytearray()
     [master, slave] = pty.openpty()
     args = (sys.executable, '-c', script)
-    proc = subprocess.Popen(args, stdin=slave, stdout=slave, stderr=slave)
+    proc = subprocess.Popen(args, stdin=slave, stdout=slave, stderr=slave, env=env)
     os.close(slave)
     with ExitStack() as cleanup:
         cleanup.enter_context(proc)