[Python-Dev] libffi embedded in CPython (original) (raw)
Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Dec 18 21:09:22 CET 2014
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014, at 14:50, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
well, the problem is essentially that libffi gets patched (e.g. for ARM) and it does not make it's way to CPython quickly. This is unlikely to be a security issue (for a variety of reasons, including ctypes), but it's still an issue I think. Segfaults related to e.g. stack alignment are hard to debug
Certainly it's a suboptimal situation, but resolving it requires someone to figure out whether we still need/want whatever patches are in there.
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