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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2007-09-07 04:18:30 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2007-09-07 04:18:30 (GMT)
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Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without
ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call(). Required introducing a static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the recursion check itself.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/abstract.c b/Objects/abstract.c
index f7a3bfe..7378e0d 100644
--- a/Objects/abstract.c
+++ b/Objects/abstract.c
@@ -1857,7 +1857,11 @@ PyObject_Call(PyObject *func, PyObject *arg, PyObject *kw)
ternaryfunc call;
if ((call = func->ob_type->tp_call) != NULL) {
- PyObject *result = (*call)(func, arg, kw);
+ PyObject *result;
+ if (Py_EnterRecursiveCall(" while calling a Python object"))
+ return NULL;
+ result = (*call)(func, arg, kw);
+ Py_LeaveRecursiveCall();
if (result == NULL && !PyErr_Occurred())
PyErr_SetString(
PyExc_SystemError,