(Merge 3.1) Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper
descriptor, the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute
anymore. Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy
of the str type).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index bb6f5ef..6674c0b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
+ the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
+ Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
+ str type).
+
- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
by Charles-François Natali.