Victor Stinner 82a18069a1
[3.11] gh-108987: Fix _thread.start_new_thread() race condition (#109135) (#109272)
gh-108987: Fix _thread.start_new_thread() race condition (#109135)

Fix _thread.start_new_thread() race condition. If a thread is created
during Python finalization, the newly spawned thread now exits
immediately instead of trying to access freed memory and lead to a
crash.

thread_run() calls PyEval_AcquireThread() which checks if the thread
must exit. The problem was that tstate was dereferenced earlier in
_PyThreadState_Bind() which leads to a crash most of the time.

Move _PyThreadState_CheckConsistency() from thread_run() to
_PyThreadState_Bind().

(cherry picked from commit 517cd82ea7d01b344804413ef05610934a43a241)
2023-09-11 19:33:08 +02:00
..
2023-08-24 20:31:59 +01:00

The Python C API
================

The C API is divided into three sections:

1. ``Include/``: Limited API
2. ``Include/cpython/``: CPython implementation details
3. ``Include/internal/``: The internal API

Information on changing the C API is available `in the developer guide`_

.. _in the developer guide: https://devguide.python.org/c-api/