<unittest> AssertRaises() causes core dump in handling recursion

[CharlesFengY]

BPO	43185
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @markshannon, @iritkatriel, @CharlesFengY
Superseder	bpo-45806: Cannot Recover From StackOverflow in 3.9 Tests

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assignee = 'https://github.com/markshannon'
closed_at = <Date 2021-11-19.18:15:58.815>
created_at = <Date 2021-02-10.09:00:08.810>
labels = ['interpreter-core', '3.9', 'type-crash']
title = '<unittest> AssertRaises() causes core dump in handling recursion'
updated_at = <Date 2021-11-19.18:15:58.815>
user = 'https://github.com/CharlesFengY'

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actor = 'lukasz.langa'
assignee = 'Mark.Shannon'
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components = ['Interpreter Core']
creation = <Date 2021-02-10.09:00:08.810>
creator = 'CharlesFengY'
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issue_num = 43185
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resolution = 'out of date'
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status = 'closed'
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type = 'crash'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue43185'
versions = ['Python 3.9']

[CharlesFengY]

Seeing the following program, in the second assertRaises(), function "test_invalid_adpcm_state()" is recursively called. Then a fatal Python error shows up and the Python interpreter crashes.

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import unittest
import audioop

class TestAudioop(unittest.TestCase):
         pass

def test_invalid_adpcm_state():
         TestAudioop.assertRaises(TypeError, audioop.lin2adpcm, b'\x00', 1, 555)
         TestAudioop.assertRaises(test_invalid_adpcm_state(), audioop.adpcm2lin, b'\x00', 1, (0, (- 1)))

TestAudioop = TestAudioop()
test_invalid_adpcm_state()

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System Info: Ubuntu 16.04
Python Version: Python 3.9.1

[iritkatriel]

Reproduced on master as well. Simplified script:

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import unittest

def f():
    raise TypeError

class TestAudioop(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_invalid_adpcm_state(self):
        self.assertRaises(TypeError, f) 
        self.test_invalid_adpcm_state()

TestAudioop().test_invalid_adpcm_state()

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[CharlesFengY]

Could you please tell me your secret method of getting the minimal script?
I will try to provide minimal ones in our following work.

[markshannon]

3.9 crashes.
On master, I'm not seeing a crash, just a RecursionError.

>>> import unittest
>>> 
>>> def f():
...     raise TypeError
... 
>>> class TestAudioop(unittest.TestCase):
...     def test_invalid_adpcm_state(self):
...         self.assertRaises(TypeError, f) 
...         self.test_invalid_adpcm_state()
... 
>>> TestAudioop().test_invalid_adpcm_state()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 4, in test_invalid_adpcm_state
  File "<stdin>", line 4, in test_invalid_adpcm_state
  File "<stdin>", line 4, in test_invalid_adpcm_state
  [Previous line repeated 992 more times]
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in test_invalid_adpcm_state
  File "/home/mark/repos/cpython/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 730, in assertRaises
    context = _AssertRaisesContext(expected_exception, self)
  File "/home/mark/repos/cpython/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 168, in __init__
    _BaseTestCaseContext.__init__(self, test_case)
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

[iritkatriel]

Yang - no secret really, just trial and error.
Mark - right I wasn't on master, sorry.

[markshannon]

I think this was fixed by #23568

The root cause seems to be the same as bpo-42500, so I'm going to backport #23568 to 3.9