cpython: Objects/dictobject.c diff (original) (raw)

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diff Objects/dictobject.c @ 18023:8d2bbbbf2cb9 legacy-trunk

lookdict: stop more insane core-dump mutating comparison cases. Should be possible to provoke unbounded recursion now, but leaving that to someone else to provoke and repair. Bugfix candidate -- although this is getting harder to backstitch, and the cases it's protecting against are mondo contrived.

author Tim Peters tim.peters@gmail.com
date Sun, 03 Jun 2001 04:54:32 +0000
parents bd1c4fe977cb
children b99979d0f9e7

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--- a/Objects/dictobject.c +++ b/Objects/dictobject.c @@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ lookdict(dictobject *mp, PyObject *key, register int checked_error; register int cmp; PyObject *err_type, *err_value, *err_tb; + PyObject *startkey; i = hash & mask; ep = &ep0[i]; @@ -272,11 +273,23 @@ lookdict(dictobject *mp, PyObject key, restore_error = 1; PyErr_Fetch(&err_type, &err_value, &err_tb); } - cmp = PyObject_RichCompareBool(ep->me_key, key, Py_EQ); - if (cmp > 0) - goto Done; + startkey = ep->me_key; + cmp = PyObject_RichCompareBool(startkey, key, Py_EQ); if (cmp < 0) PyErr_Clear(); + if (ep0 == mp->ma_table && ep->me_key == startkey) { + if (cmp > 0) + goto Done; + } + else { + / The compare did major nasty stuff to the + * dict: start over. + * XXX A clever adversary could prevent this + * XXX from terminating.