Use-after-free by mutating set during set operations

[sweeneyde]

BPO	46615
Nosy	@tim-one, @rhettinger, @serhiy-storchaka, @miss-islington, @sweeneyde
PRs	bpo-46615: Don't crash when set operations mutate the sets #31120 [3.10] bpo-46615: Don't crash when set operations mutate the sets (GH-31120) #31284 [3.9] bpo-46615: Don't crash when set operations mutate the sets (GH-31120) #31312
Files	picklecrasher.py: Randomized crasher for uses of PyDict_Next in _pickle.c

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labels = ['interpreter-core', '3.10', '3.9', 'type-crash', '3.11']
title = 'Use-after-free by mutating set during set operations'
updated_at = <Date 2022-02-19.05:24:06.142>
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[sweeneyde]

Maybe related to https://bugs.python.org/issue8420

Somewhat obscure, but using only standard Python, and no frame- or gc-hacks, it looks like we can get a use-after-free:

from random import random

BADNESS = 0.0

class Bad:
 def __eq__(self, other):
 if random() < BADNESS:
 set1.clear()
 if random() < BADNESS:
 set2.clear()
 return True
 def __hash__(self):
 return 42

SIZE = 100
TRIALS = 10_000

ops = [
 "|", "|=",
 "==", "!=",
 "<", "<=",
 ">", ">=",
 # "&", # crash!
 # "&=", # crash!
 "^",
 # "^=", # crash
 # "-", # crash
 "-=",
]

for op in ops:
 stmt = f"set1 {op} set2"
 print(stmt, "...")
 for _ in range(TRIALS):
 BADNESS = 0.00
 set1 = {Bad() for _ in range(SIZE)}
 set2 = {Bad() for _ in range(SIZE)}
 BADNESS = 0.02
 exec(stmt)
 print("ok.")

[sweeneyde]

replacing return True with return random() < 0.5 makes all of the operations crash, except for | and |=.

[sweeneyde]

set1.isdisjoint(set2) also crashes