[3.8] bpo-40412: Nullify inittab_copy during finalization (GH-19746) #19841
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Otherwise we leave a dangling pointer to free'd memory. If we then initialize a new interpreter in the same process and call PyImport_ExtendInittab, we will (likely) crash when calling PyMem_RawRealloc(inittab_copy, ...) since the pointer address is bogus. Automerge-Triggered-By: @brettcannon (cherry picked from commit 64224a4) Co-authored-by: Gregory Szorc <[email protected]>
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Otherwise we leave a dangling pointer to free'd memory. If we
then initialize a new interpreter in the same process and call
PyImport_ExtendInittab, we will (likely) crash when calling
PyMem_RawRealloc(inittab_copy, ...) since the pointer address
is bogus.
Automerge-Triggered-By: @brettcannon
(cherry picked from commit 64224a4)
Co-authored-by: Gregory Szorc [email protected]
https://bugs.python.org/issue40412
Automerge-Triggered-By: @brettcannon