diff -up Python-2.7.3/Lib/test/test_gc.py.gc-assertions Python-2.7.3/Lib/test/test_gc.py
--- Python-2.7.3/Lib/test/test_gc.py.gc-assertions 2013-02-20 16:28:20.890536607 -0500
+++ Python-2.7.3/Lib/test/test_gc.py 2013-02-20 16:39:52.720489297 -0500
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
import unittest
-from test.test_support import verbose, run_unittest
+from test.test_support import verbose, run_unittest, import_module
import sys
+import sysconfig
import time
import gc
import weakref
@@ -32,6 +33,8 @@ class GC_Detector(object):
self.wr = weakref.ref(C1055820(666), it_happened)
+BUILT_WITH_NDEBUG = ('-DNDEBUG' in sysconfig.get_config_vars()['PY_CFLAGS'])
+
### Tests
###############################################################################
@@ -476,6 +479,49 @@ class GCTests(unittest.TestCase):
# would be damaged, with an empty __dict__.
self.assertEqual(x, None)
+ @unittest.skipIf(BUILT_WITH_NDEBUG,
+ 'built with -NDEBUG')
+ def test_refcount_errors(self):
+ # Verify the "handling" of objects with broken refcounts
+
+ import_module("ctypes") #skip if not supported
+
+ import subprocess
+ code = '''if 1:
+ a = []
+ b = [a]
+
+ # Simulate the refcount of "a" being too low (compared to the
+ # references held on it by live data), but keeping it above zero
+ # (to avoid deallocating it):
+ import ctypes
+ ctypes.pythonapi.Py_DecRef(ctypes.py_object(a))
+
+ # The garbage collector should now have a fatal error when it reaches
+ # the broken object:
+ import gc
+ gc.collect()
+ '''
+ p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c", code],
+ stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+ stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+ stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
+ p.stdout.close()
+ p.stderr.close()
+ # Verify that stderr has a useful error message:
+ self.assertRegexpMatches(stderr,
+ b'Modules/gcmodule.c:[0-9]+: visit_decref: Assertion "gc->gc.gc_refs != 0" failed.')
+ self.assertRegexpMatches(stderr,
+ b'refcount was too small')
+ self.assertRegexpMatches(stderr,
+ b'object : \[\]')
+ self.assertRegexpMatches(stderr,
+ b'type : list')
+ self.assertRegexpMatches(stderr,
+ b'refcount: 1')
+ self.assertRegexpMatches(stderr,
+ b'address : 0x[0-9a-f]+')
+
class GCTogglingTests(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
gc.enable()
diff -up Python-2.7.3/Modules/gcmodule.c.gc-assertions Python-2.7.3/Modules/gcmodule.c
--- Python-2.7.3/Modules/gcmodule.c.gc-assertions 2012-04-09 19:07:34.000000000 -0400
+++ Python-2.7.3/Modules/gcmodule.c 2013-02-20 16:28:21.029536600 -0500
@@ -21,6 +21,73 @@
#include "Python.h"
#include "frameobject.h" /* for PyFrame_ClearFreeList */
+/*
+ Define a pair of assertion macros.
+
+ These work like the regular C assert(), in that they will abort the
+ process with a message on stderr if the given condition fails to hold,
+ but compile away to nothing if NDEBUG is defined.
+
+ However, before aborting, Python will also try to call _PyObject_Dump() on
+ the given object. This may be of use when investigating bugs in which a
+ particular object is corrupt (e.g. buggy a tp_visit method in an extension
+ module breaking the garbage collector), to help locate the broken objects.
+
+ The WITH_MSG variant allows you to supply an additional message that Python
+ will attempt to print to stderr, after the object dump.
+*/
+#ifdef NDEBUG
+/* No debugging: compile away the assertions: */
+#define PyObject_ASSERT_WITH_MSG(obj, expr, msg) ((void)0)
+#else
+/* With debugging: generate checks: */
+#define PyObject_ASSERT_WITH_MSG(obj, expr, msg) \
+ ((expr) \
+ ? (void)(0) \
+ : _PyObject_AssertFailed((obj), \
+ (msg), \
+ (__STRING(expr)), \
+ (__FILE__), \
+ (__LINE__), \
+ (__PRETTY_FUNCTION__)))
+#endif
+
+#define PyObject_ASSERT(obj, expr) \
+ PyObject_ASSERT_WITH_MSG(obj, expr, NULL)
+
+static void _PyObject_AssertFailed(PyObject *, const char *,
+ const char *, const char *, int,
+ const char *);
+
+static void
+_PyObject_AssertFailed(PyObject *obj, const char *msg, const char *expr,
+ const char *file, int line, const char *function)
+{
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "%s:%d: %s: Assertion \"%s\" failed.\n",
+ file, line, function, expr);
+ if (msg) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", msg);
+ }
+
+ fflush(stderr);
+
+ if (obj) {
+ /* This might succeed or fail, but we're about to abort, so at least
+ try to provide any extra info we can: */
+ _PyObject_Dump(obj);
+ }
+ else {
+ fprintf(stderr, "NULL object\n");
+ }
+
+ fflush(stdout);
+ fflush(stderr);
+
+ /* Terminate the process: */
+ abort();
+}
+
/* Get an object's GC head */
#define AS_GC(o) ((PyGC_Head *)(o)-1)
@@ -288,7 +355,8 @@ update_refs(PyGC_Head *containers)
{
PyGC_Head *gc = containers->gc.gc_next;
for (; gc != containers; gc = gc->gc.gc_next) {
- assert(gc->gc.gc_refs == GC_REACHABLE);
+ PyObject_ASSERT(FROM_GC(gc),
+ gc->gc.gc_refs == GC_REACHABLE);
gc->gc.gc_refs = Py_REFCNT(FROM_GC(gc));
/* Python's cyclic gc should never see an incoming refcount
* of 0: if something decref'ed to 0, it should have been
@@ -308,7 +376,8 @@ update_refs(PyGC_Head *containers)
* so serious that maybe this should be a release-build
* check instead of an assert?
*/
- assert(gc->gc.gc_refs != 0);
+ PyObject_ASSERT(FROM_GC(gc),
+ gc->gc.gc_refs != 0);
}
}
@@ -323,7 +392,9 @@ visit_decref(PyObject *op, void *data)
* generation being collected, which can be recognized
* because only they have positive gc_refs.
*/
- assert(gc->gc.gc_refs != 0); /* else refcount was too small */
+ PyObject_ASSERT_WITH_MSG(FROM_GC(gc),
+ gc->gc.gc_refs != 0,
+ "refcount was too small");
if (gc->gc.gc_refs > 0)
gc->gc.gc_refs--;
}
@@ -383,9 +454,10 @@ visit_reachable(PyObject *op, PyGC_Head
* If gc_refs == GC_UNTRACKED, it must be ignored.
*/
else {
- assert(gc_refs > 0
- || gc_refs == GC_REACHABLE
- || gc_refs == GC_UNTRACKED);
+ PyObject_ASSERT(FROM_GC(gc),
+ gc_refs > 0
+ || gc_refs == GC_REACHABLE
+ || gc_refs == GC_UNTRACKED);
}
}
return 0;
@@ -427,7 +499,7 @@ move_unreachable(PyGC_Head *young, PyGC_
*/
PyObject *op = FROM_GC(gc);
traverseproc traverse = Py_TYPE(op)->tp_traverse;
- assert(gc->gc.gc_refs > 0);
+ PyObject_ASSERT(op, gc->gc.gc_refs > 0);
gc->gc.gc_refs = GC_REACHABLE;
(void) traverse(op,
(visitproc)visit_reachable,
@@ -494,7 +566,8 @@ move_finalizers(PyGC_Head *unreachable,
for (gc = unreachable->gc.gc_next; gc != unreachable; gc = next) {
PyObject *op = FROM_GC(gc);
- assert(IS_TENTATIVELY_UNREACHABLE(op));
+ PyObject_ASSERT(op, IS_TENTATIVELY_UNREACHABLE(op));
+
next = gc->gc.gc_next;
if (has_finalizer(op)) {
@@ -570,7 +643,7 @@ handle_weakrefs(PyGC_Head *unreachable,
PyWeakReference **wrlist;
op = FROM_GC(gc);
- assert(IS_TENTATIVELY_UNREACHABLE(op));
+ PyObject_ASSERT(op, IS_TENTATIVELY_UNREACHABLE(op));
next = gc->gc.gc_next;
if (! PyType_SUPPORTS_WEAKREFS(Py_TYPE(op)))
@@ -591,9 +664,9 @@ handle_weakrefs(PyGC_Head *unreachable,
* the callback pointer intact. Obscure: it also
* changes *wrlist.
*/
- assert(wr->wr_object == op);
+ PyObject_ASSERT(wr->wr_object, wr->wr_object == op);
_PyWeakref_ClearRef(wr);
- assert(wr->wr_object == Py_None);
+ PyObject_ASSERT(wr->wr_object, wr->wr_object == Py_None);
if (wr->wr_callback == NULL)
continue; /* no callback */
@@ -627,7 +700,7 @@ handle_weakrefs(PyGC_Head *unreachable,
*/
if (IS_TENTATIVELY_UNREACHABLE(wr))
continue;
- assert(IS_REACHABLE(wr));
+ PyObject_ASSERT(op, IS_REACHABLE(wr));
/* Create a new reference so that wr can't go away
* before we can process it again.
@@ -636,7 +709,8 @@ handle_weakrefs(PyGC_Head *unreachable,
/* Move wr to wrcb_to_call, for the next pass. */
wrasgc = AS_GC(wr);
- assert(wrasgc != next); /* wrasgc is reachable, but
+ PyObject_ASSERT(op, wrasgc != next);
+ /* wrasgc is reachable, but
next isn't, so they can't
be the same */
gc_list_move(wrasgc, &wrcb_to_call);
@@ -652,11 +726,11 @@ handle_weakrefs(PyGC_Head *unreachable,
gc = wrcb_to_call.gc.gc_next;
op = FROM_GC(gc);
- assert(IS_REACHABLE(op));
- assert(PyWeakref_Check(op));
+ PyObject_ASSERT(op, IS_REACHABLE(op));
+ PyObject_ASSERT(op, PyWeakref_Check(op));
wr = (PyWeakReference *)op;
callback = wr->wr_callback;
- assert(callback != NULL);
+ PyObject_ASSERT(op, callback != NULL);
/* copy-paste of weakrefobject.c's handle_callback() */
temp = PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(callback, wr, NULL);
@@ -759,7 +833,7 @@ delete_garbage(PyGC_Head *collectable, P
PyGC_Head *gc = collectable->gc.gc_next;
PyObject *op = FROM_GC(gc);
- assert(IS_TENTATIVELY_UNREACHABLE(op));
+ PyObject_ASSERT(op, IS_TENTATIVELY_UNREACHABLE(op));
if (debug & DEBUG_SAVEALL) {
PyList_Append(garbage, op);
}