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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2002-03-30 06:20:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2002-03-30 06:20:23 (GMT) |
| commit | 12300686ca805289a340b740856ad00139a9b3c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 388cba79e149130161530e76a9ab12a28d4252b1 /Objects/obmalloc.c | |
| parent | d97a1c008c4a7ae04c55c8de2cdb71a9ea43656a (diff) | |
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Retract the claim that this is always safe if PyMem_{Del, DEL, Free, FREE}
are called without the GIL. It's incredibly unlikely to fail, but I can't
make this bulletproof without either adding a lock for exclusion, or
giving up on growing the arena base-address vector (it would be safe if
this were a static array).
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/obmalloc.c b/Objects/obmalloc.c index 5ac5c35..500afba 100644 --- a/Objects/obmalloc.c +++ b/Objects/obmalloc.c @@ -403,6 +403,10 @@ new_arena(void) * only make a supposed-to-succeed case fail by mistake). * Read the above 50 times before changing anything in this * block. + * XXX Fudge. This is still vulnerable: there's nothing + * XXX to stop the bad-guy thread from picking up the + * XXX current value of arenas, but not indexing off of it + * XXX until after the PyMem_FREE(oldarenas) below completes. */ uptr *oldarenas; int newmax = maxarenas + (maxarenas >> 1); |