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  r76763 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-12-12 20:13:08 +0100 (sam., 12 déc. 2009) | 7 lines

  Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
  in the middle of populating a tuple.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.

  (note: no NEWS entry for trunk since the bug was introduced in 2.7/3.1)
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Lib/test/test_tuple.py

@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ class TupleTest(seq_tests.CommonTest):
             pass
         self.check_track_dynamic(MyTuple, True)
 
+    def test_bug7466(self):
+        # Trying to untrack an unfinished tuple could crash Python
+        self._not_tracked(tuple(gc.collect() for i in range(101)))
 
 def test_main():
     support.run_unittest(TupleTest)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
+  in the middle of populating a tuple.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.
+
 - Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
   with invalid values.
 

Objects/tupleobject.c

@@ -850,7 +850,8 @@ _PyTuple_Resize(PyObject **pv, Py_ssize_t newsize)
 
 	/* XXX UNREF/NEWREF interface should be more symmetrical */
 	_Py_DEC_REFTOTAL;
-	_PyObject_GC_UNTRACK(v);
+	if (_PyObject_GC_IS_TRACKED(v))
+		_PyObject_GC_UNTRACK(v);
 	_Py_ForgetReference((PyObject *) v);
 	/* DECREF items deleted by shrinkage */
 	for (i = newsize; i < oldsize; i++) {