From: Meador Inge <meadori@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 02:56:59 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0a1~92^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8988ebf2a7a89620781feca39074f91469e7baf2;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.

The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches
for the `crle` program.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.  Tested on SunOS by
Kees Bos.
---

diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/util.py b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
index 9e74ccdbcf40..8ff4aff0ca51 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/util.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ elif os.name == "posix":
             else:
                 cmd = 'env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/crle 2>/dev/null'
 
+            paths = None
             with contextlib.closing(os.popen(cmd)) as f:
                 for line in f.readlines():
                     line = line.strip()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 67c2a17e5d18..89403b04e89c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
+
+  The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches
+  for the `crle` program.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.  Tested on SunOS by
+  Kees Bos.
+
 - Issue #26864: In urllib.request, change the proxy bypass host checking
   against no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match unrelated host
   names that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix.  Patch by Xiang