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: v2.7.12rc1~94
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae21a8a555c1d9ce7e3d2dd2c15ba3675a391d58;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 1e882e37fb1b..c437ed35e891 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/util.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ elif os.name == "posix":
             else:
                 cmd = 'env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/crle 2>/dev/null'
 
+            paths = None
             for line in os.popen(cmd).readlines():
                 line = line.strip()
                 if line.startswith('Default Library Path (ELF):'):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ea36439efd30..e521ae1488f6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ 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, 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 Zhang.