From: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 08:07:47 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: bpo-36421: Fix a possible double decref in _ctypes.c's PyCArrayType_new(). (GH-12530)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a3~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5e333784f007950f22de44c1ffab5b0c03d6691f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-36421: Fix a possible double decref in _ctypes.c's PyCArrayType_new(). (GH-12530)

Set type_attr to NULL after the assignment to stgdict->proto (like
what is done with stgdict after the Py_SETREF() call) so that it is
not decrefed twice on error.
---

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-24-21-33-22.bpo-36421.gJ2Pv9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-24-21-33-22.bpo-36421.gJ2Pv9.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2577511de2e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-24-21-33-22.bpo-36421.gJ2Pv9.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix a possible double decref in _ctypes.c's ``PyCArrayType_new()``.
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c b/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c
index 0d95d2b6f76e..45102f3304ec 100644
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c
@@ -1522,6 +1522,7 @@ PyCArrayType_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
     stgdict->align = itemalign;
     stgdict->length = length;
     stgdict->proto = type_attr;
+    type_attr = NULL;
 
     stgdict->paramfunc = &PyCArrayType_paramfunc;