[issue3299] invalid object destruction in re.finditer()
STINNER Victor
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Jul 14 04:08:34 CEST 2008
STINNER Victor <haypo at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
F*ck, Firefox just crashed! I have to rewrite my long comment...
First, to explain why the problem only occurs in pydebug mode: a
PyObject has only _ob_next and _ob_prev attributes if Py_TRACE_REFS is
set (eg. by pydebug). PyObject_NEW() and PyObject_NEW_VAR() call
PyObject_Init() which register the new object to the object list,
whereas PyObject_DEL() only free the memory.
PyObject_DEL() doesn't the dealloc() method nor removing the object
from the object list. So Py_DECREF() should be used instead: it calls
the dealloc method and remove the object from the object list.
PyObject_DEL() is misused in _sre and in curses modules. See attached
patches.
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10891/_sre-2.patch
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