[3.8] bpo-39871: Fix possible SystemError in atan2, copysign and remainder (GH-18806...

In math_2(), the first PyFloat_AsDouble() call should be checked
for failure before the second call.

Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>.
(cherry picked from commit 5208b4b37953a406db0ed6a9db545c2948dde989)

Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_math.py b/Lib/test/test_math.py
index 6abaeead5c20cdb792694d6fa60b3f4d25d1ae4a..4a1ba830c98d6428367b858c1f35638a26e76c1e 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_math.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_math.py
@@ -1878,6 +1878,22 @@ class MathTests(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertIs(type(comb(IntSubclass(5), IntSubclass(k))), int)
             self.assertIs(type(comb(MyIndexable(5), MyIndexable(k))), int)
 
+    def test_issue39871(self):
+        # A SystemError should not be raised if the first arg to atan2(),
+        # copysign(), or remainder() cannot be converted to a float.
+        class F:
+            def __float__(self):
+                self.converted = True
+                1/0
+        for func in math.atan2, math.copysign, math.remainder:
+            y = F()
+            with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+                func("not a number", y)
+
+            # There should not have been any attempt to convert the second
+            # argument to a float.
+            self.assertFalse(getattr(y, "converted", False))
+
     # Custom assertions.
 
     def assertIsNaN(self, value):

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-03-06-06-12-37.bpo-39871.dCAj_2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-03-06-06-12-37.bpo-39871.dCAj_2.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..0b4c2e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-03-06-06-12-37.bpo-39871.dCAj_2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fix a possible :exc:`SystemError` in ``math.{atan2,copysign,remainder}()``
+when the first argument cannot be converted to a :class:`float`. Patch by
+Zachary Spytz.

diff --git a/Modules/mathmodule.c b/Modules/mathmodule.c
index 4e97337811113d2700319f4cc0197662d90c520d..b78fcedd03de5fd2c0cda356c39ef0c89da6e9d1 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/mathmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/mathmodule.c
@@ -1027,9 +1027,13 @@ math_2(PyObject *const *args, Py_ssize_t nargs,
     if (!_PyArg_CheckPositional(funcname, nargs, 2, 2))
         return NULL;
     x = PyFloat_AsDouble(args[0]);
+    if (x == -1.0 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
     y = PyFloat_AsDouble(args[1]);
-    if ((x == -1.0 || y == -1.0) && PyErr_Occurred())
+    if (y == -1.0 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
         return NULL;
+    }
     errno = 0;
     PyFPE_START_PROTECT("in math_2", return 0);
     r = (*func)(x, y);