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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_io.py19
-rw-r--r--Misc/ACKS1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS6
-rw-r--r--Objects/typeobject.c2
4 files changed, 27 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index 0bc5800..c423dd6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -585,7 +585,24 @@ class IOTest(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertEqual(rawio.read(2), b"")
class CIOTest(IOTest):
- pass
+
+ def test_IOBase_finalize(self):
+ # Issue #12149: segmentation fault on _PyIOBase_finalize when both a
+ # class which inherits IOBase and an object of this class are caught
+ # in a reference cycle and close() is already in the method cache.
+ class MyIO(self.IOBase):
+ def close(self):
+ pass
+
+ # create an instance to populate the method cache
+ MyIO()
+ obj = MyIO()
+ obj.obj = obj
+ wr = weakref.ref(obj)
+ del MyIO
+ del obj
+ support.gc_collect()
+ self.assertTrue(wr() is None, wr)
class PyIOTest(IOTest):
test_array_writes = unittest.skip(
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 709ded3..665f71f 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -686,6 +686,7 @@ Armin Rigo
Nicholas Riley
Jean-Claude Rimbault
Juan M. Bello Rivas
+Davide Rizzo
Anthony Roach
Mark Roberts
Jim Robinson
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 97a4acb..4aa48ae 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.7.3?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
+ cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
+ and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
+ deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
+ IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
+
- Issue #12501: Adjust callable() warning: callable() is only not supported in
Python 3.1. callable() is again supported in Python 3.2.
diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index 49c7e07..8326d07 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -1013,6 +1013,8 @@ subtype_dealloc(PyObject *self)
assert(basedealloc);
basedealloc(self);
+ PyType_Modified(type);
+
/* Can't reference self beyond this point */
Py_DECREF(type);