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Title: ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a function without argtypes
Type: crash Stage:
Components: ctypes Versions: Python 2.7, Python 2.6
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: theller Nosy List: amaury.forgeotdarc, theller
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2009-02-10 12:48 by amaury.forgeotdarc, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg81544 - (view) Author: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc (amaury.forgeotdarc) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-02-10 12:48
The following code segfaults on platforms where HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is
not defined (for example: narrow unicode build and sizeof(wchar_t)==4)

>>> from ctypes import *
>>> import ctypes.util
>>> CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library('c')).wcslen(u'text')

(it works if the argtypes member is defined)

The reason is a non initialized structure, and the correction is trivial:

--- Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c~ 2007-06-15 19:10:41.000000000 +0200
+++ Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c  2009-02-10 13:28:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -538,6 +538,7 @@
                int size = PyUnicode_GET_SIZE(obj);
                size += 1; /* terminating NUL */
                size *= sizeof(wchar_t);
+               pa->ffi_type = &ffi_type_pointer;
                pa->value.p = PyMem_Malloc(size);
                if (!pa->value.p) {
                        PyErr_NoMemory();
msg81582 - (view) Author: Thomas Heller (theller) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-02-10 19:07
Fixed in trunk (rev 69505) and release26-maint (rev 69506).
The bug was already fixed in a different way in py3k and release30-maint
although in a different way, I merged this exact fix anyway (rev 69507
and rev 69508).

Thanks.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:56:45adminsetgithub: 49453
2009-02-10 19:07:27thellersetstatus: open -> closed
resolution: fixed
messages: + msg81582
versions: + Python 2.7
2009-02-10 12:48:03amaury.forgeotdarccreate