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Author vstinner
Recipients vstinner
Date 2008-08-20.02:45:50
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Message-id <1219200352.15.0.533081432151.issue3611@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I also noticed a crash in PyErr_SetObject(): in block <line 68..86>, 
tstate->exc_value value may changes and so it's possible that 
tstate->exc_value becomes NULL. I added a test to avoid this crash:

Index: Python/errors.c
===================================================================
--- Python/errors.c     (révision 65899)
+++ Python/errors.c     (copie de travail)
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
                   This is O(chain length) but context chains are
                   usually very short. Sensitive readers may try
                   to inline the call to PyException_GetContext. */
-               if (tstate->exc_value != value) {
+               if (tstate->exc_value != value && tstate->exc_value != 
NULL) {
                        PyObject *o = tstate->exc_value, *context;
                        while ((context = PyException_GetContext(o))) 
{
                                Py_DECREF(context);
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