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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe update defines database source types, routes inputs by reader mode, validates metadata and search-tree traversal, and changes C-extension lifecycle handling. It adds metadata properties, tests, typing checks, and documentation. ChangesReader API and metadata
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🟡 Minor · Release previous references when reinitializing Metadata. · maxminddb.c:984-1016
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Metadata.A second successful
Metadata_initcall overwrites the owned fields before the existingPy_INCREFcalls. Replace only the assignments withPy_XSETREF, and keep the existingPy_INCREFcalls. Do not add additional increments beforePy_XSETREF.This leak also exists at the merge base, so it is not introduced by this PR.
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Use MODE_FD for file objects with a non-zero or unknown position.
When a supported binary file object has a usable fileno(), MODE_AUTO maps the complete file. MODE_FD reads only from the current position. Therefore, a non-zero position can make MODE_AUTO read different bytes from MODE_FD.
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| if mode == MODE_AUTO and not isinstance(database, _PATH_TYPES): | |
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Close the descriptor in a finally block.
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Add a regression test for closing the reader while a shared iterator is in use.
Line 1013 releases the read lock before ip_network runs. Line 989 reads depth before Python code can run. The next call to reader_iter_next checks mmdb == NULL under the lock. This order is correct.
The record entries that wait in ri->next keep MMDB_entry_s values that point into the mmap. These entries are only dereferenced after the closed check, so the current code is safe. A future change to that order would cause a use-after-free. Add a test that closes the reader between next() calls and then expects ValueError.
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Metadata_dealloc called Py_DECREF on each field. A Metadata object that init did not fill has NULL fields, so freeing it crashed. That happened after Metadata.__new__ and after a failed init. Reader.metadata() passes every metadata key to init, so a database with an unknown key crashed the process when code called metadata(). The spec allows new keys in a minor version of the format. Use Py_XDECREF. Metadata_init made every argument optional but increfed all nine locals. A missing argument increfed an uninitialized pointer. Make the arguments required. Reader_iter and ReaderIter_next checked closed == Py_True. A Reader that init did not open has closed == NULL and mmdb == NULL, so iteration dereferenced NULL. Check mmdb, as get() and metadata() do. The ReaderIter type allowed direct instantiation, and its dealloc then decrefed a NULL reader. Disallow instantiation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The Reader, Metadata and iterator types are heap types, so each instance holds a reference to its type. The dealloc functions did not release that reference, so each object leaked one reference to its type, and the types were never freed. Reader_init did not check whether the reader was already initialized. A second __init__ leaked the open database and reinitialized a lock that other threads could hold. On a reader closed after an iterator was made, it also freed the database under that iterator, so the next step of the iterator read freed memory. Refuse any reinitialization with a ValueError, as __enter__ does for a closed reader. Metadata_init also accepted a second init, which leaked the old field values. Refuse it with the same ValueError. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
On free-threaded builds, the read-write lock did not follow the object lifetime. Reader_init created the lock, destroyed it again when the open failed, and Reader_dealloc destroyed it once more, so a failed open destroyed the lock twice. A reader made with __new__ alone, with no init, used and then destroyed a lock that was never created. glibc treats an all-zero pthread_rwlock_t as a valid unlocked lock and ignores a second destroy, so this was harmless on Linux. Other platforms, such as macOS, reject both. Create the lock once in tp_new and destroy it once in Reader_dealloc. Reader_init no longer creates or destroys the lock. Every allocated reader, including one from a bare __new__ or a failed init, then has exactly one valid lock for its whole lifetime. Reader_init now holds the write lock while it checks for a second init and stores the opened database, so two threads that call __init__ on one reader cannot both open a database. If the lock fails to initialize, tp_new frees the object directly. Reader_dealloc would destroy the failed lock. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
ReaderIter_next held the read lock while it called ipaddress.ip_network, which runs Python code. That caused two hangs on free-threaded builds: - If the code closed the reader on the same thread, for example from a signal handler, close() waited for the write lock that the thread's own read lock blocked. - If the code ran the garbage collector while another thread waited in close() for the write lock, the collector stopped the world and waited for that thread, which waited for the read lock. The network uses only the iterator's own record, so release the lock after the record is decoded. Now no thread runs Python code while it holds the lock. A SIGALRM handler that closes the reader during iteration, and a wrapped ip_network that calls gc.collect() while another thread calls close(), both hung before this change and work after it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
ReaderIter_next takes records off the iterator's pending list and adds their children while it holds only the shared read lock. On free-threaded builds, two threads that called next() on the same iterator could take the same record and both free it. The process aborted with heap corruption. Hold a critical section on the iterator for each next() call. With the GIL, the list changes already run without interruption. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The module defines PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN, so the y# format reads the length as a Py_ssize_t. ReaderIter_next passed an int, which is undefined behavior on 64-bit platforms: Py_BuildValue reads 8 bytes from a 4-byte argument. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
reader_iter_next checked for a closed reader before it checked for an empty list. After close(), an exhausted iterator raised ValueError instead of StopIteration, which breaks the iterator protocol. The pure Python iterator, a generator, stops as expected. Check for an empty list first. It needs no lock, because the list belongs to the iterator. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
from_map built the dict, then returned NULL without releasing it when a key failed to decode, for example a map key that is not valid UTF-8. The sibling path for a failed value already released the dict. The cyclic garbage collector reclaims the dict later, so the leak does not grow without bound, but the refcount handling was still wrong. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Reader__exit__ and Reader_dealloc called Reader_close and ignored the result. Each successful close leaked a reference to None, which matters before Python 3.12, where None is not immortal. On free-threaded builds, a failure to take the write lock left an exception set: __exit__ hid it behind a successful return, and dealloc left it pending for unrelated code to find. __exit__ now returns the result of Reader_close. dealloc releases the result, or reports the error as unraisable, because dealloc cannot raise. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Neither reader limited the depth of the tree walk during iteration. A corrupt tree, such as one where a node points back to itself, made the C extension set bits past the end of the 16-byte ip_packed array, and then past its heap allocation. The process aborted with heap corruption. The pure Python reader recursed until it raised RecursionError, which a caller that catches InvalidDatabaseError does not catch. A node at the full address depth has no valid children, so both readers now raise InvalidDatabaseError when they reach one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
After an error, such as a corrupt search tree, the C iterator kept its pending records, and the next call continued from them. With a cycle in the tree, a caller that skipped bad records could get many errors before StopIteration. The pure Python iterator is a generator, so it stops after its first error. Free the pending records when next() fails, so the C iterator stops too. Reuse the loop from ReaderIter_dealloc as free_records. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The reader passed every decoded metadata key to Metadata, with no check. An unknown key or a missing key raised a bare TypeError. The spec says that a new key is a minor version change, so a reader must accept keys that it does not know. A value of the wrong type passed, so Metadata held values that did not match its annotations. For example, a string node_count failed later with TypeError, and a string languages value opened with no error. libmaxminddb rejects a missing key or a wrong type with InvalidDatabaseError. Pass only the known keys to Metadata, after a check that each one is present and has the expected type. This also removes the annotated local that widened the unchecked metadata to dict[str, Any], and its comment, which said that the spec fixes the metadata keys. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The spec says that a new metadata key is a minor version change, so a reader must accept keys that it does not know. Reader.metadata() passed every key to the Metadata constructor, which accepts only the nine known keys. A database with an unknown key made metadata() raise TypeError. Before the segmentation fault fix, it crashed the process. Pass only the known keys to Metadata. Metadata_init and Reader_metadata now share one key list. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
open_database() declares the pure Python Reader as its return type, even when it returns the extension Reader. Type checkers therefore accepted metadata().node_byte_size and metadata().search_tree_size, but the extension Metadata did not have them. In MODE_AUTO with the extension, the code raised AttributeError. Add both properties to the C type and to the stub. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Since 3.0.0, the README has said that the modes are available from maxminddb.Mode. maxminddb did not import Mode, so that attribute raised AttributeError. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
GitHub #464 replaced the AnyStr TypeVar in Primitive with str | bytes. Primitive and Record are no longer generic aliases, so a subscript such as Record[str] now raises TypeError. HISTORY.rst did not mention the change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The C extension decodes the MaxMind DB bytes type to bytearray. The pure Python reader decodes it to bytes. MODE_AUTO uses the extension when it is available, so most callers get bytearray. mypy does not treat bytearray as bytes, so it reported an isinstance(value, bytearray) check as unreachable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
__iter__ and _generate_children returned a bare Iterator, so strict type checkers inferred Unknown for the network and record of each item. The extension stub already declares the item type. Use the same type. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Both iterators turned any network whose first 96 bits were zero into an IPv4 network and subtracted 96 from its prefix length. For a network shorter than /96, such as ::/1, the prefix length became negative, and iteration raised ValueError. An IPv4 network in an IPv6 tree is at least /96, so convert only those. The pure Python iterator had two more bugs here. It compared the address with 2**32 using <=, so ::1:0:0/96 got a prefix length of 0 and raised ValueError. It also skipped every data record equal to the IPv4 start node, although only a search node can be the IPv4 subtree. Use <, and skip only a search node, as the C iterator does. Build the network with IPv4Network or IPv6Network, because ip_network() picks IPv4 for any small integer. Its alias rule also differed from the C iterator. It skipped the IPv4 start node in an IPv4 tree, where a record that points back to the root is a cycle, and inside the IPv4 subtree of an IPv6 tree. Both hid a corrupt tree behind partial results. Skip the subtree only when an address with a set bit in its first 96 bits leads to it, as the C iterator does, and raise InvalidDatabaseError for a record that points to the root, which libmaxminddb treats as invalid. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
_resolve_data_pointer checked only that a data pointer was inside the
buffer. A search tree record that pointed into the 16-byte separator
between the search tree and the data section decoded the zero bytes
there, so get() returned {} and iteration yielded the network with {}.
libmaxminddb rejects such a record as a corrupt search tree.
Reject a pointer before the start of the data section too. A lookup
benchmark showed no measurable cost.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Both __exit__ methods left their arguments untyped and suppressed the ruff warning. Strict type checkers report the missing annotation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
hasattr() never causes an attr-defined error. mypy --strict reports the ignore as unused. The ignore on the os.pread() call stays because Windows has no os.pread. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
open_database(), Reader.__init__ and Reader._load_buffer each spelled out the database argument union. A change to the accepted types had to edit every copy, and nothing caught a missed one. Define StrOrBytesPath and DatabaseSource in maxminddb.types and use them. The extension stub accepts different types, so it keeps its own annotation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The extension parses the database argument with PyUnicode_FSConverter, so it accepts only str, bytes and os.PathLike. The stub also accepted int and IO[bytes], which raise TypeError. The extension does not support MODE_FD, so the docstring was wrong too. open_database() passes any database argument to the extension in MODE_AUTO and MODE_MMAP_EXT. The narrower stub shows that mismatch. Keep the runtime behavior and explain the type: ignore. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
MODE_FD calls only database.read() and reads database.name when it exists. IO[bytes] requires much more, so a GzipFile and other binary readers did not type-check, although they work at runtime. Accept any object with a read() method that returns bytes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The release notes point users to the type aliases in maxminddb.types, such as Record, DatabaseSource and SupportsRead, but the API docs did not include that module. Add it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
MODE_AUTO passed every database argument to the C extension when it was installed, but the extension accepts only a path. A file object raised TypeError, although the pure Python reader can read it. Without the extension, a file object also raised TypeError. In MODE_AUTO, read a file object as MODE_FD does. A path still opens as a path, even if it also has read(), because some path objects, such as py.path.local, have a text read(). A file descriptor still raises TypeError with the extension, as before. The pure Python path modes close a descriptor, and a caller of the default mode might not expect that. Without the extension, MODE_AUTO still opens a descriptor, as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
MODE_FD calls database.read(), so it takes a binary file object, and MODE_AUTO now reads one the same way. The docstrings and the README said that MODE_FD takes a file descriptor. An int file descriptor fails with AttributeError in MODE_FD. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
_load_buffer passed the database argument to open(), FileBuffer and .read() behind 5 type: ignore comments, and it declared -> str although it returns the database argument or a file object name. An Any local hid that mismatch. The ignores hid real mismatches too. MODE_FD with a path raised AttributeError, and a path mode with a file object raised a TypeError from open() that did not name the mode. Check the argument type for the mode and raise TypeError with the fix. The checks narrow the type, so the ignores go away. FileBuffer now takes the path types that open() accepts. The unsupported mode check still comes first. The function returns object, because the caller only formats the name into error messages. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The pure Python Reader accepts MODE_MMAP, but the error for an unsupported mode listed only MODE_AUTO, MODE_FILE, MODE_MEMORY and MODE_FD. A caller who passed MODE_MMAP_EXT was told that MODE_MMAP was not supported. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The name for a file object without a name attribute was
f"<{type(database)}>", so error messages showed
"<<class '_io.BytesIO'>>". MODE_AUTO now reads file objects too, so
these messages are more common. Use the type name, as in "<BytesIO>".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
No test checked the public types, and non-strict mypy accepts a bare generic alias with no error. A TypeVar back in Primitive, a bare Iterator, or a wider stub would pass CI. mypy already checks tests/ in the lint environment. Add assert_type checks under TYPE_CHECKING, so the file costs nothing at runtime. The file enables warn-unused-ignores, so each type: ignore asserts that a call fails the type check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Posted by Claude (AI agent) on behalf of @oschwald. Closing in favor of six stacked PRs that split this change by topic. Each has its own STF sub-issue of STF-1954:
The tip of #471 has the content of this PR, plus fixes from a review of each stacked PR:
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This PR improves the public types and fixes the memory-safety, leak, and correctness bugs that a type review and a follow-up review found. The review includes the valid findings from the review of #464 (https://gist.github.com/horgh/8ae4ede6f3113c0f709006c61a186ab9). Each change is its own commit, and every commit builds and passes the lint and test checks.
C extension: memory safety
maxminddb.extension.Metadatawith a missing or unknown argument, iterating an uninitializedReader, and creating the internal iterator type directly all crashed. They now raise an exception.reader.close()thenreader.__init__(other)left an existing iterator pointing at the freed database. Reinitializing any reader now raisesValueError.Metadata.__init__andReader.__init__leaked on re-init;from_mapleaked the partial dict when a key failed to decode;Reader.metadata()leaked a non-dict decode. All fixed.__init__, destroyed twice on a failed open, and used uninitialized after a bare__new__. The lock is now created intp_newand destroyed once in dealloc. Verified on a free-threaded 3.14t build (full suite + an 8-thread concurrent-read stress test with the GIL off).All memory work was checked under AddressSanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, and LeakSanitizer; a sanitizer build of
mainreports the old crashes.Metadata
Reader.metadata()in the extension crashed and the pure Python reader raisedTypeError.InvalidDatabaseErrorfor a missing key, a wrong value type, or an invalidip_versionor format version, matching libmaxminddb (it still accepts an empty search tree,node_count0).Metadatagainednode_byte_sizeandsearch_tree_size, which the return type already advertised.Types
Primitiveincludesbytearray(the extension returns it for thebytestype).Reader.__iter__declares its item type.StrOrBytesPath,DatabaseSource, andSupportsReadinmaxminddb.typesreplace repeated unions.MODE_FDaccepts any object with aread()returningbytes, such as aGzipFile.open_databasenarrows the type itself, so thetype: ignoreis gone and passing a non-path withMODE_MMAP_EXTis now a type error.tests/typing_test.pyaddsassert_typechecks for the public API.MODE_AUTO and file descriptors
MODE_AUTOpicks the reader from the argument: a path uses the extension, a real file object is memory-mapped by its descriptor, and aBytesIOorGzipFileis read.open(..., closefd=False)), matching the documented ownership.TypeErroragain (it had becomeAttributeError).Other
maxminddb.Modenow exists, as the README has said since 3.0.0.RecordandPrimitiveare no longer generic aliases (Make Record and database parameter types concrete #464).Not done
mode: intthrough toopen_database(), so the overloads would break its type checks.STF-1954
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BytesIOandGzipFile.Modeand added read-only metadata properties for node byte size and search tree size.