gh-101037: Fix potential memory underallocation for zeros of int subtypes (#101038)

This PR fixes object allocation in long_subtype_new to ensure that there's at least one digit in all cases, and makes sure that the value of that digit is copied over from the source long.

Needs backport to 3.11, but not any further: the change to require at least one digit was only introduced for Python 3.11.

Fixes #101037.

diff --git a/Include/cpython/longintrepr.h b/Include/cpython/longintrepr.h
index 68dbf9c4382dc5d49b1f98ec54cb9f1259ac0e49..6d52427508b5fe4fc5414673d273a4ecfd587dcf 100644 (file)
--- a/Include/cpython/longintrepr.h
+++ b/Include/cpython/longintrepr.h
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ typedef long stwodigits; /* signed variant of twodigits */
         0 <= ob_digit[i] <= MASK.
    The allocation function takes care of allocating extra memory
    so that ob_digit[0] ... ob_digit[abs(ob_size)-1] are actually available.
+   We always allocate memory for at least one digit, so accessing ob_digit[0]
+   is always safe. However, in the case ob_size == 0, the contents of
+   ob_digit[0] may be undefined.
 
    CAUTION:  Generic code manipulating subtypes of PyVarObject has to
    aware that ints abuse  ob_size's sign bit.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-01-14-17-03-08.gh-issue-101037.9ATNuf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-01-14-17-03-08.gh-issue-101037.9ATNuf.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..a487566
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-01-14-17-03-08.gh-issue-101037.9ATNuf.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix potential memory underallocation issue for instances of :class:`int`
+subclasses with value zero.

diff --git a/Objects/longobject.c b/Objects/longobject.c
index 1db4ca418e066eca190512487973dde5743a9a5a..51ac86961c9954250d66ca16627d8a33986e1e1e 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/longobject.c
+++ b/Objects/longobject.c
@@ -5638,6 +5638,11 @@ long_subtype_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *x, PyObject *obase)
     n = Py_SIZE(tmp);
     if (n < 0)
         n = -n;
+    /* Fast operations for single digit integers (including zero)
+     * assume that there is always at least one digit present. */
+    if (n == 0) {
+        n = 1;
+    }
     newobj = (PyLongObject *)type->tp_alloc(type, n);
     if (newobj == NULL) {
         Py_DECREF(tmp);