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| // second init would leak the open database and reinitialize the lock. On | ||
| // a closed reader it would also leave an existing iterator pointing at | ||
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Initialize the reader lock in tp_new.
On pthread builds, the new Reader.__new__ tests call iter, __enter__, and close before Reader_init initializes rwlock. These methods acquire the lock before checking mmdb, and Reader_dealloc destroys the lock unconditionally. The reader can therefore use or destroy an uninitialized pthread lock. If MMDB_open fails, Reader_init also destroys the lock before returning, and deallocation destroys it again.
Initialize the lock in tp_new, track whether initialization succeeded, and destroy it only when that flag is set. Remove lock initialization and destruction from Reader_init.
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typedef struct Reader_obj_struct {
PyObject_HEAD /* no semicolon */
MMDB_s *mmdb;
PyObject *closed;
reader_rwlock_t rwlock;
+ bool rwlock_initialized;
} Reader_obj;
+static PyObject *Reader_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds) {
+ (void)args;
+ (void)kwds;
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+ Reader_obj *obj = (Reader_obj *)type->tp_alloc(type, 0);
+ if (obj == NULL) {
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ if (reader_lock_init(&obj->rwlock) != 0) {
+ Py_DECREF(obj);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ obj->rwlock_initialized = true;
+ return (PyObject *)obj;
+}
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static int Reader_init(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds) {
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- if (reader_lock_init(&mmdb_obj->rwlock) != 0) {
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int const status = MMDB_open(filename, MMDB_MODE_MMAP, mmdb);
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- reader_lock_destroy(&mmdb_obj->rwlock);
free(mmdb);
...
- reader_lock_destroy(&obj->rwlock);
+ if (obj->rwlock_initialized) {
+ reader_lock_destroy(&obj->rwlock);
+ }
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static PyType_Slot Reader_Type_slots[] = {
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Initialize the reader lock in the Reader type’s tp_new path and track successful
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Fixed in 108843d ("Initialize the reader lock in tp_new"), which moved into this PR from #467. Reader_new creates the lock, Reader_init no longer creates or destroys it, and Reader_dealloc destroys it once.
I did not add rwlock_initialized: if reader_lock_init fails, Reader_new frees the object with PyObject_Del and never returns it, so every Reader that reaches dealloc has a valid lock.
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]>
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. A second __init__ initialized the lock again, while another thread could hold it. 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. If the lock fails to initialize, tp_new frees the object directly, because 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]>
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Keep close() valid before initialization.
If a caller creates Reader.__new__(Reader) and calls close(), evaluating self._buffer raises AttributeError. _close_buffer never runs, and closed remains unset. Previously, the suppression covered the missing _buffer access. Pass getattr(self, "_buffer", None) so this lifecycle state remains safe.
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Good catch. The last commit moved the contextlib.suppress into _close_buffer, so close() read self._buffer outside it. Fixed in 0b7589f: close() now passes getattr(self, "_buffer", None). The new shared test_close_uninitialized_reader calls close() on a Reader.__new__() object in every mode of both readers.
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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. A second Reader_init did not close the open database, so it leaked. It also left existing iterators with records that point into the old database, so the next step of such an iterator read freed memory. A second init now reopens the reader, as in the pure Python reader. It closes the old database under the write lock before it opens the new one, so a failed open leaves the reader closed. Each open increments a generation count, and an iterator from an older generation raises ValueError. Init releases the path only after the lock, because a bytes subclass from __fspath__ can run code that uses the reader when it is freed. Metadata_init also accepted a second init, which leaked the old field values. Refuse it with a ValueError. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]> 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]>
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 does not free an object with a leaked reference, so each failed lookup kept one empty dict, about 64 bytes. The new test makes 2,000 failed lookups and checks the memory that tracemalloc reports. Before the fix, the lookups kept about 128 KB. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
from_map ignored a failure from PyDict_SetItem, such as a MemoryError while the dict resizes. It then returned the dict with the exception still set, and the caller raised SystemError. Now it releases the dict and returns NULL, so the original exception reaches the caller. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
from_map read every map key from the utf8_string member of the entry union. libmaxminddb does not check the key type, so a database with a key of another type, such as a uint16, made from_map read an integer as a pointer. The process crashed with a segmentation fault. Raise InvalidDatabaseError for a key that is not a UTF-8 string. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
from_entry_data_list passed uint32 values to PyLong_FromLong. On platforms where a C long has 32 bits, such as Windows and 32-bit Linux, a value of 2**31 or more became negative, for example an ASN of 4200000000. The pure Python reader returns the correct value. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Reader.metadata() returned NULL without releasing the decoded object when it was not a dict. libmaxminddb validates the metadata when it opens the database, so an opened database reaches this path only through a bug, 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 no longer calls Reader_close. It closes the database directly, without the lock. At a reference count of 0 no other thread can use the reader, because each iterator holds a reference to it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Metadata is an immutable value object, but Metadata_init set its fields. That allowed a Metadata with NULL fields, after Metadata.__new__ or a failed init, and a second init. Each state needed its own guard: a reinit check, a critical section on free-threaded builds, and Py_XDECREF in dealloc. Metadata_new now parses the arguments and sets every field, and the type has no tp_init. Each Metadata then has all fields set, and a second __init__ call changes nothing, because object.__init__ ignores the arguments when a type overrides tp_new. Metadata.__new__ with no arguments now raises TypeError. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A second __init__ on the pure Python Reader replaced the buffer, but it did not close the old one. An iterator from before the second init then walked the new database with node numbers from the old one, and returned networks that are not in either database. The C extension now closes the old database and stops such an iterator. Do the same here: __init__ closes the old buffer once the new one is loaded and increments a generation count. An iterator from an older generation raises the same ValueError. A count is needed, because a source can return the same buffer object again: BytesIO.read() does after seek(0). The check is one integer comparison for each node during iteration. Lookups do not change. The reinitialization tests now run for every mode of both readers, so the two keep the same behavior. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Fixes crashes, reference leaks, undefined behavior and lost errors in the C extension. This is the first of six stacked PRs that replace #465.
Metadatacreated with missing fields or never initialized, iterating an uninitializedReader, creating the internal iterator type directly, and a database with a map key that is not a string all crashed. They now raise an exception.__init__on aReaderleft a live iterator on the freed database, and leaked the open one. A second__init__now closes the old database, and an iterator from before it raisesValueError. The pure Python reader now does the same: before, its old iterator walked the new database with node numbers from the old one. Shared tests run these cases in every mode of both readers.Metadatanow sets its fields intp_new, so a second__init__changes nothing.Reader_initcreated the read-write lock, destroyed it after a failed open, and dealloc destroyed it again. A reader made with__new__alone used a lock that was never created. glibc tolerates both, but macOS does not. The lock is now created once intp_newand destroyed once in dealloc.from_mapleaked the partial dict when a key failed to decode, andReader.metadata()leaked a decoded value that was not a dict.ReaderIter_nextpassed anintlength toPy_BuildValue("y#"), which reads aPy_ssize_t.uint32values of 2^31 or more came back negative where a Clonghas 32 bits.from_mapignored aPyDict_SetItemfailure, and__exit__ignored a failedReader_close. Dealloc now closes the database directly, with no lock.Each change is its own commit, and every commit builds and passes the lint and test checks. The full suite also passes under ASan, UBSan and LSan.
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