[Python-checkins] bpo-23325: Fix SIG_IGN and SIG_DFL int comparison in signal module (GH-31759)

[miss-islington]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c8a47e76a391c8818bf10a282cdcd3bb5c23ebf6
commit: c8a47e76a391c8818bf10a282cdcd3bb5c23ebf6
branch: main
author: Christian Heimes <christian at python.org>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-03-08T10:22:32-08:00
summary:

bpo-23325: Fix SIG_IGN and SIG_DFL int comparison in signal module (GH-31759)

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-03-08-11-34-06.bpo-23325.3VQnfo.rst
M Modules/signalmodule.c

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-03-08-11-34-06.bpo-23325.3VQnfo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-03-08-11-34-06.bpo-23325.3VQnfo.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0801cbb448225
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-03-08-11-34-06.bpo-23325.3VQnfo.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The :mod:`signal` module no longer assumes that :const:`~signal.SIG_IGN` and
+:const:`~signal.SIG_DFL` are small int singletons.
diff --git a/Modules/signalmodule.c b/Modules/signalmodule.c
index 26a1f48470ed2..9566263a0dd87 100644
--- a/Modules/signalmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/signalmodule.c
@@ -177,6 +177,17 @@ get_signal_state(PyObject *module)
 }
 
 
+static inline int
+compare_handler(PyObject *func, PyObject *dfl_ign_handler)
+{
+    assert(PyLong_CheckExact(dfl_ign_handler));
+    if (!PyLong_CheckExact(func)) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+    // Assume that comparison of two PyLong objects will never fail.
+    return PyObject_RichCompareBool(func, dfl_ign_handler, Py_EQ) == 1;
+}
+
 #ifdef HAVE_GETITIMER
 /* auxiliary functions for setitimer */
 static int
@@ -528,21 +539,18 @@ signal_signal_impl(PyObject *module, int signalnum, PyObject *handler)
                          "signal number out of range");
         return NULL;
     }
-    if (handler == modstate->ignore_handler) {
+    if (PyCallable_Check(handler)) {
+        func = signal_handler;
+    } else if (compare_handler(handler, modstate->ignore_handler)) {
         func = SIG_IGN;
-    }
-    else if (handler == modstate->default_handler) {
+    } else if (compare_handler(handler, modstate->default_handler)) {
         func = SIG_DFL;
-    }
-    else if (!PyCallable_Check(handler)) {
+    } else {
         _PyErr_SetString(tstate, PyExc_TypeError,
                          "signal handler must be signal.SIG_IGN, "
                          "signal.SIG_DFL, or a callable object");
         return NULL;
     }
-    else {
-        func = signal_handler;
-    }
 
     /* Check for pending signals before changing signal handler */
     if (_PyErr_CheckSignalsTstate(tstate)) {
@@ -1752,8 +1760,8 @@ _PySignal_Fini(void)
         set_handler(signum, NULL);
         if (func != NULL
             && func != Py_None
-            && func != state->default_handler
-            && func != state->ignore_handler)
+            && !compare_handler(func, state->default_handler)
+            && !compare_handler(func, state->ignore_handler))
         {
             PyOS_setsig(signum, SIG_DFL);
         }
@@ -1824,8 +1832,9 @@ _PyErr_CheckSignalsTstate(PyThreadState *tstate)
          * (see bpo-43406).
          */
         PyObject *func = get_handler(i);
-        if (func == NULL || func == Py_None || func == state->ignore_handler ||
-            func == state->default_handler) {
+        if (func == NULL || func == Py_None ||
+            compare_handler(func, state->ignore_handler) ||
+            compare_handler(func, state->default_handler)) {
             /* No Python signal handler due to aforementioned race condition.
              * We can't call raise() as it would break the assumption
              * that PyErr_SetInterrupt() only *simulates* an incoming
@@ -1893,7 +1902,8 @@ PyErr_SetInterruptEx(int signum)
 
     signal_state_t *state = &signal_global_state;
     PyObject *func = get_handler(signum);
-    if (func != state->ignore_handler && func != state->default_handler) {
+    if (!compare_handler(func, state->ignore_handler)
+            && !compare_handler(func, state->default_handler)) {
         trip_signal(signum);
     }
     return 0;