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  r86981 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-12-03 19:41:39 +0100 (ven., 03 déc. 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
  way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
  current process.
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  r86984 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-12-03 20:14:17 +0100 (ven., 03 déc. 2010) | 3 lines

  Add an "advanced topics" section to the io doc.
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diff --git a/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c b/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
index 611dc8c..11bc0b6 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@
 
 #ifdef WITH_THREAD
     PyThread_type_lock lock;
+    volatile long owner;
 #endif
 
     Py_ssize_t buffer_size;
@@ -259,15 +260,33 @@
 /* These macros protect the buffered object against concurrent operations. */
 
 #ifdef WITH_THREAD
-#define ENTER_BUFFERED(self) \
-    Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS \
-    PyThread_acquire_lock(self->lock, 1); \
+static int
+_enter_buffered_busy(buffered *self)
+{
+    if (self->owner == PyThread_get_thread_ident()) {
+        PyErr_Format(PyExc_RuntimeError,
+                     "reentrant call inside %R", self);
+        return 0;
+    }
+    Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+    PyThread_acquire_lock(self->lock, 1);
     Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+    return 1;
+}
+
+#define ENTER_BUFFERED(self) \
+    ( (PyThread_acquire_lock(self->lock, 0) ? \
+       1 : _enter_buffered_busy(self)) \
+     && (self->owner = PyThread_get_thread_ident(), 1) )
 
 #define LEAVE_BUFFERED(self) \
-    PyThread_release_lock(self->lock);
+    do { \
+        self->owner = 0; \
+        PyThread_release_lock(self->lock); \
+    } while(0);
+
 #else
-#define ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+#define ENTER_BUFFERED(self) 1
 #define LEAVE_BUFFERED(self)
 #endif
 
@@ -423,7 +442,8 @@
     int r;
 
     CHECK_INITIALIZED(self)
-    ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+    if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+        return NULL;
 
     r = buffered_closed(self);
     if (r < 0)
@@ -436,7 +456,8 @@
     /* flush() will most probably re-take the lock, so drop it first */
     LEAVE_BUFFERED(self)
     res = PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs((PyObject *)self, _PyIO_str_flush, NULL);
-    ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+    if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+        return NULL;
     if (res == NULL) {
         goto end;
     }
@@ -639,6 +660,7 @@
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "can't allocate read lock");
         return -1;
     }
+    self->owner = 0;
 #endif
     /* Find out whether buffer_size is a power of 2 */
     /* XXX is this optimization useful? */
@@ -665,7 +687,8 @@
     CHECK_INITIALIZED(self)
     CHECK_CLOSED(self, "flush of closed file")
 
-    ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+    if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+        return NULL;
     res = _bufferedwriter_flush_unlocked(self, 0);
     if (res != NULL && self->readable) {
         /* Rewind the raw stream so that its position corresponds to
@@ -692,7 +715,8 @@
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+    if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+        return NULL;
 
     if (self->writable) {
         res = _bufferedwriter_flush_unlocked(self, 1);
@@ -727,7 +751,8 @@
 
     if (n == -1) {
         /* The number of bytes is unspecified, read until the end of stream */
-        ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+        if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+            return NULL;
         res = _bufferedreader_read_all(self);
         LEAVE_BUFFERED(self)
     }
@@ -735,7 +760,8 @@
         res = _bufferedreader_read_fast(self, n);
         if (res == Py_None) {
             Py_DECREF(res);
-            ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+            if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+                return NULL;
             res = _bufferedreader_read_generic(self, n);
             LEAVE_BUFFERED(self)
         }
@@ -763,7 +789,8 @@
     if (n == 0)
         return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(NULL, 0);
 
-    ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+    if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+        return NULL;
     
     if (self->writable) {
         res = _bufferedwriter_flush_unlocked(self, 1);
@@ -819,7 +846,8 @@
     
     /* TODO: use raw.readinto() instead! */
     if (self->writable) {
-        ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+        if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+            return NULL;
         res = _bufferedwriter_flush_unlocked(self, 0);
         LEAVE_BUFFERED(self)
         if (res == NULL)
@@ -863,7 +891,8 @@
         goto end_unlocked;
     }
 
-    ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+    if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+        goto end_unlocked;
 
     /* Now we try to get some more from the raw stream */
     if (self->writable) {
@@ -1013,7 +1042,8 @@
         }
     }
 
-    ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+    if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+        return NULL;
 
     /* Fallback: invoke raw seek() method and clear buffer */
     if (self->writable) {
@@ -1051,7 +1081,8 @@
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+    if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self))
+        return NULL;
 
     if (self->writable) {
         res = _bufferedwriter_flush_unlocked(self, 0);
@@ -1705,7 +1736,10 @@
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    ENTER_BUFFERED(self)
+    if (!ENTER_BUFFERED(self)) {
+        PyBuffer_Release(&buf);
+        return NULL;
+    }
 
     /* Fast path: the data to write can be fully buffered. */
     if (!VALID_READ_BUFFER(self) && !VALID_WRITE_BUFFER(self)) {