Merged revisions 66006 via svnmerge from
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TESTED=./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall (both debug and opt modes)

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  r66006 | neal.norwitz | 2008-08-23 22:04:52 -0700 (Sat, 23 Aug 2008) | 25 lines

  Fix:
   * crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc
   * memory leaks found with valgrind
   * compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads
   * problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker

  Update the valgrind suppressions file with new leaks that are small/one-time
  leaks we don't care about (ie, they are too hard to fix).

  TBR=barry
  TESTED=./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall (both debug and opt modes)
    in opt mode:
    valgrind -q --leak-check=yes --suppressions=Misc/valgrind-python.supp \
      ./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall,-bsddb,-compiler \
                          -x test_logging test_ssl test_multiprocessing
    valgrind -q --leak-check=yes --suppressions=Misc/valgrind-python.supp \
      ./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py test_multiprocessing
    for i in `seq 1 4000` ; do
      LD_PRELOAD=~/local/lib/libfailmalloc.so FAILMALLOC_INTERVAL=$i \
          ./python -c pass
    done

  At least some of these fixes should probably be backported to 2.5.
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diff --git a/Python/getargs.c b/Python/getargs.c
index cf4444c..b7beb37 100644
--- a/Python/getargs.c
+++ b/Python/getargs.c
@@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@
 /* XXX for 3.x, getbuffer and convertbuffer can probably
    be merged again. */
 static int
-getbuffer(PyObject *arg, Py_buffer *view, char**errmsg)
+getbuffer(PyObject *arg, Py_buffer *view, char **errmsg)
 {
 	void *buf;
 	Py_ssize_t count;
@@ -1364,8 +1364,10 @@
 		return -1;
 	}
 	if (pb->bf_getbuffer) {
-		if (pb->bf_getbuffer(arg, view, 0) < 0)
+		if (pb->bf_getbuffer(arg, view, 0) < 0) {
+			*errmsg = "convertible to a buffer";
 			return -1;
+		}
 		if (!PyBuffer_IsContiguous(view, 'C')) {
 			*errmsg = "contiguous buffer";
 			return -1;
@@ -1374,8 +1376,10 @@
 	}
 
 	count = convertbuffer(arg, &buf, errmsg);
-	if (count < 0)
+	if (count < 0) {
+		*errmsg = "convertible to a buffer";
 		return count;
+	}
 	PyBuffer_FillInfo(view, NULL, buf, count, 1, 0);
 	return 0;
 }