[3.6] bpo-31411: Prevent raising a SystemError in case warnings.onceregistry is not a dictionary. (GH-3485). (#3494)

(cherry picked from commit 252033d50effa08046ac34fcc406bc99796ab88b)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Python/_warnings.c b/Python/_warnings.c
index 6cfae77..2b04b90 100644
--- a/Python/_warnings.c
+++ b/Python/_warnings.c
@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ get_once_registry(void)
             return NULL;
         return _once_registry;
     }
+    if (!PyDict_Check(registry)) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
+                        "warnings.onceregistry must be a dict");
+        Py_DECREF(registry);
+        return NULL;
+    }
     Py_DECREF(_once_registry);
     _once_registry = registry;
     return registry;
@@ -449,7 +455,7 @@ warn_explicit(PyObject *category, PyObject *message,
         Py_RETURN_NONE;
 
     if (registry && !PyDict_Check(registry) && (registry != Py_None)) {
-        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "'registry' must be a dict");
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "'registry' must be a dict or None");
         return NULL;
     }