Merged revisions 65654 via svnmerge from
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  r65654 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-08-12 16:49:50 +0200 (Tue, 12 Aug 2008) | 6 lines

  Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
  by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
  and introducing s*.

  More module might need to get converted to use s*.
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diff --git a/Python/marshal.c b/Python/marshal.c
index e7e4154..d3f2d7f 100644
--- a/Python/marshal.c
+++ b/Python/marshal.c
@@ -1168,11 +1168,14 @@
 marshal_loads(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
 	RFILE rf;
+	Py_buffer p;
 	char *s;
 	Py_ssize_t n;
 	PyObject* result;
-	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#:loads", &s, &n))
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s*:loads", &p))
 		return NULL;
+	s = p.buf;
+	n = p.len;
 	rf.fp = NULL;
 	rf.ptr = s;
 	rf.end = s + n;
@@ -1180,6 +1183,7 @@
 	rf.depth = 0;
 	result = read_object(&rf);
 	Py_DECREF(rf.strings);
+	PyBuffer_Release(&p);
 	return result;
 }