bpo-21131: Fix faulthandler.register(chain=True) stack (GH-15276)

faulthandler now allocates a dedicated stack of SIGSTKSZ*2 bytes,
instead of just SIGSTKSZ bytes. Calling the previous signal handler
in faulthandler signal handler uses more than SIGSTKSZ bytes of stack
memory on some platforms.
(cherry picked from commit ac827edc493d3ac3f5b9b0cc353df1d4b418a9aa)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-15-34-23.bpo-21131.0MMQRi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-15-34-23.bpo-21131.0MMQRi.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..d330aca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-14-15-34-23.bpo-21131.0MMQRi.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fix ``faulthandler.register(chain=True)`` stack. faulthandler now allocates a
+dedicated stack of ``SIGSTKSZ*2`` bytes, instead of just ``SIGSTKSZ`` bytes.
+Calling the previous signal handler in faulthandler signal handler uses more
+than ``SIGSTKSZ`` bytes of stack memory on some platforms.

diff --git a/Modules/faulthandler.c b/Modules/faulthandler.c
index f2b5a503f4ee1e83d96da866b2272f472d515863..7b325996b268b168480d8adee6210eab6605420a 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/faulthandler.c
+++ b/Modules/faulthandler.c
@@ -1325,7 +1325,11 @@ _PyFaulthandler_Init(int enable)
      * be able to allocate memory on the stack, even on a stack overflow. If it
      * fails, ignore the error. */
     stack.ss_flags = 0;
-    stack.ss_size = SIGSTKSZ;
+    /* bpo-21131: allocate dedicated stack of SIGSTKSZ*2 bytes, instead of just
+       SIGSTKSZ bytes. Calling the previous signal handler in faulthandler
+       signal handler uses more than SIGSTKSZ bytes of stack memory on some
+       platforms. */
+    stack.ss_size = SIGSTKSZ * 2;
     stack.ss_sp = PyMem_Malloc(stack.ss_size);
     if (stack.ss_sp != NULL) {
         err = sigaltstack(&stack, &old_stack);