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authorMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2011-09-24 08:57:00 +0100
committerMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2011-09-24 08:57:00 +0100
commita61b053e611dd97258231913b79fafe0a9a16125 (patch)
treea5112e5cb15610424f8465ec4a9a30d6c5163e83
parent3454d524344bf8a0cbe5178ef299e52fcbc0dc84 (diff)
parentb2f6bc72a269a0c4ed389ad232b47e2a42b8dde0 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-a61b053e611dd97258231913b79fafe0a9a16125.tar.gz
Merge #12973 itertools fix.
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS6
-rw-r--r--Modules/itertoolsmodule.c4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0e18621d23..4f550340e7 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path. Thanks to Suman Saha for
finding the bug and providing a patch.
-- Issue #12973: Fix overflow check that relied on undefined behaviour in
- list_repeat. This bug caused test_list to fail with recent versions
- of Clang.
+- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
+ list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These bugs
+ caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
- Issue #12904: os.utime, os.futimes, os.lutimes, and os.futimesat now write
atime and mtime with nanosecond precision on modern POSIX platforms.
diff --git a/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c b/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
index ad22ec790c..d0897c3eb9 100644
--- a/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
@@ -1234,7 +1234,9 @@ islice_next(isliceobject *lz)
return NULL;
lz->cnt++;
oldnext = lz->next;
- lz->next += lz->step;
+ /* The (size_t) cast below avoids the danger of undefined
+ behaviour from signed integer overflow. */
+ lz->next += (size_t)lz->step;
if (lz->next < oldnext || (stop != -1 && lz->next > stop))
lz->next = stop;
return item;