Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read

non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
Patch by Matt Bandy.

diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index fbc9326e3d2962d73f77fe006a3c9fe928885d40..6010ace7118780645b50dbcab98e162c0f671841 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ Stig Bakken
 Greg Ball
 Luigi Ballabio
 Jeff Balogh
+Matt Bandy
 Michael J. Barber
 Chris Barker
 Nick Barnes

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 01c25426d1bd29a86fb6b5cbe94aa73975565410..d18b7e7c537f49b7db9825d29489c207ac9f43f9 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
+  non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
+  Patch by Matt Bandy.
+
 - Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years.  The time.asctime
   function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
   false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise.  The year range

diff --git a/Objects/obmalloc.c b/Objects/obmalloc.c
index bbdc9469b3b6800c7e5c00424a92b59c1534b224..39162621209b678215f69ae2f0470ba4b5e35da8 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/obmalloc.c
+++ b/Objects/obmalloc.c
@@ -682,11 +682,19 @@ that this test determines whether an arbitrary address is controlled by
 obmalloc in a small constant time, independent of the number of arenas
 obmalloc controls.  Since this test is needed at every entry point, it's
 extremely desirable that it be this fast.
+
+Since Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANGE may be reading from memory which was not allocated
+by Python, it is important that (POOL)->arenaindex is read only once, as
+another thread may be concurrently modifying the value without holding the
+GIL.  To accomplish this, the arenaindex_temp variable is used to store
+(POOL)->arenaindex for the duration of the Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANGE macro's
+execution.  The caller of the macro is responsible for declaring this
+variable.
 */
 #define Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANGE(P, POOL)                    \
-    ((POOL)->arenaindex < maxarenas &&                  \
-     (uptr)(P) - arenas[(POOL)->arenaindex].address < (uptr)ARENA_SIZE && \
-     arenas[(POOL)->arenaindex].address != 0)
+    ((arenaindex_temp = (POOL)->arenaindex) < maxarenas &&              \
+     (uptr)(P) - arenas[arenaindex_temp].address < (uptr)ARENA_SIZE && \
+     arenas[arenaindex_temp].address != 0)
 
 
 /* This is only useful when running memory debuggers such as
@@ -945,6 +953,9 @@ PyObject_Free(void *p)
     block *lastfree;
     poolp next, prev;
     uint size;
+#ifndef Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER
+    uint arenaindex_temp;
+#endif
 
     if (p == NULL)      /* free(NULL) has no effect */
         return;
@@ -1167,6 +1178,9 @@ PyObject_Realloc(void *p, size_t nbytes)
     void *bp;
     poolp pool;
     size_t size;
+#ifndef Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER
+    uint arenaindex_temp;
+#endif
 
     if (p == NULL)
         return PyObject_Malloc(nbytes);
@@ -1867,8 +1881,10 @@ _PyObject_DebugMallocStats(void)
 int
 Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANGE(void *P, poolp pool)
 {
-    return pool->arenaindex < maxarenas &&
-           (uptr)P - arenas[pool->arenaindex].address < (uptr)ARENA_SIZE &&
-           arenas[pool->arenaindex].address != 0;
+    uint arenaindex_temp = pool->arenaindex;
+
+    return arenaindex_temp < maxarenas &&
+           (uptr)P - arenas[arenaindex_temp].address < (uptr)ARENA_SIZE &&
+           arenas[arenaindex_temp].address != 0;
 }
 #endif