Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
which are part of a reference cycle.
diff --git a/Lib/_threading_local.py b/Lib/_threading_local.py
index 4eda630..243d84e 100644
--- a/Lib/_threading_local.py
+++ b/Lib/_threading_local.py
@@ -218,10 +218,12 @@
key = object.__getattribute__(self, '_local__key')
try:
- threads = list(threading.enumerate())
+ # We use the non-locking API since we might already hold the lock
+ # (__del__ can be called at any point by the cyclic GC).
+ threads = threading._enumerate()
except:
- # If enumerate fails, as it seems to do during
- # shutdown, we'll skip cleanup under the assumption
+ # If enumerating the current threads fails, as it seems to do
+ # during shutdown, we'll skip cleanup under the assumption
# that there is nothing to clean up.
return