Allocating a new weakref object can cause existing weakref objects for

the same object to be collected by the cyclic GC support if they are
only referenced by a cycle.  If the weakref being collected was one of
the weakrefs without callbacks, some local variables for the
constructor became invalid and have to be re-computed.

The test caused a segfault under a debug build without the fix applied.

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_weakref.py b/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
index f732d7ba81..00cd7ae04f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import gc
 import sys
 import unittest
 import UserList
@@ -591,6 +592,37 @@ class ReferencesTestCase(TestBase):
         gc.collect()
         self.assertEqual(alist, [])
 
+    def test_gc_during_ref_creation(self):
+        self.check_gc_during_creation(weakref.ref)
+
+    def test_gc_during_proxy_creation(self):
+        self.check_gc_during_creation(weakref.proxy)
+
+    def check_gc_during_creation(self, makeref):
+        thresholds = gc.get_threshold()
+        gc.set_threshold(1, 1, 1)
+        gc.collect()
+        class A:
+            pass
+
+        def callback(*args):
+            pass
+
+        referenced = A()
+
+        a = A()
+        a.a = a
+        a.wr = makeref(referenced)
+
+        try:
+            # now make sure the object and the ref get labeled as
+            # cyclic trash:
+            a = A()
+            a.wrc = weakref.ref(referenced, callback)
+
+        finally:
+            gc.set_threshold(*thresholds)
+
 class Object:
     def __init__(self, arg):
         self.arg = arg