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authorTony Roberts <tony@pyxll.com>2019-02-02 17:16:42 (GMT)
committerSteve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>2019-02-02 17:16:42 (GMT)
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bpo-33895: Relase GIL while calling functions that acquire Windows loader lock (GH-7789)
LoadLibrary, GetProcAddress, FreeLibrary and GetModuleHandle acquire the system loader lock. Calling these while holding the GIL will cause a deadlock on the rare occasion that another thread is detaching and needs to destroy its thread state at the same time.
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diff --git a/Modules/overlapped.c b/Modules/overlapped.c
index ef4390b..e5a209b 100644
--- a/Modules/overlapped.c
+++ b/Modules/overlapped.c
@@ -127,8 +127,10 @@ initialize_function_pointers(void)
closesocket(s);
/* On WinXP we will have Py_CancelIoEx == NULL */
+ Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
hKernel32 = GetModuleHandle("KERNEL32");
*(FARPROC *)&Py_CancelIoEx = GetProcAddress(hKernel32, "CancelIoEx");
+ Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
return 0;
}