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@miss-islington miss-islington commented Feb 4, 2020

When called on a closed object, readinto() segfaults on account
of a write to a freed buffer:

==220553== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV): dumping core
==220553==  Access not within mapped region at address 0x2A
==220553==    at 0x48408A0: memmove (vg_replace_strmem.c:1272)
==220553==    by 0x58DB0C: _buffered_readinto_generic (bufferedio.c:972)
==220553==    by 0x58DCBA: _io__Buffered_readinto_impl (bufferedio.c:1053)
==220553==    by 0x58DCBA: _io__Buffered_readinto (bufferedio.c.h:253)

Reproducer:

reader = open ("/dev/zero", "rb")
_void  = reader.read (42)
reader.close ()
reader.readinto (bytearray (42)) GH-GH-GH- BANG!

The problem exists since 2012 when commit dc46945 added code
to free the read buffer on close().

Signed-off-by: Philipp Gesang [email protected]
(cherry picked from commit cb1c074)

Co-authored-by: Philipp Gesang [email protected]

https://bugs.python.org/issue39510

…thonGH-18295)

When called on a closed object, readinto() segfaults on account
of a write to a freed buffer:

    ==220553== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV): dumping core
    ==220553==  Access not within mapped region at address 0x2A
    ==220553==    at 0x48408A0: memmove (vg_replace_strmem.c:1272)
    ==220553==    by 0x58DB0C: _buffered_readinto_generic (bufferedio.c:972)
    ==220553==    by 0x58DCBA: _io__Buffered_readinto_impl (bufferedio.c:1053)
    ==220553==    by 0x58DCBA: _io__Buffered_readinto (bufferedio.c.h:253)

Reproducer:

    reader = open ("/dev/zero", "rb")
    _void  = reader.read (42)
    reader.close ()
    reader.readinto (bytearray (42)) GH-GH-GH- BANG!

The problem exists since 2012 when commit dc46945 added code
to free the read buffer on close().

Signed-off-by: Philipp Gesang <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit cb1c074)

Co-authored-by: Philipp Gesang <[email protected]>
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@phi-gamma and @benjaminp: Status check is done, and it's a success ✅ .

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Sorry, I can't merge this PR. Reason: You're not authorized to push to this branch. Visit https://help.github.com/articles/about-protected-branches/ for more information..

@benjaminp benjaminp merged commit c352e6c into python:3.6 Feb 4, 2020
@miss-islington miss-islington deleted the backport-cb1c074-3.6 branch February 4, 2020 22:06
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