Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
string instead.
diff --git a/Include/bytearrayobject.h b/Include/bytearrayobject.h
index 265b4bb..8702e5a 100644
--- a/Include/bytearrayobject.h
+++ b/Include/bytearrayobject.h
@@ -44,9 +44,13 @@
PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyByteArray_Resize(PyObject *, Py_ssize_t);
/* Macros, trading safety for speed */
-#define PyByteArray_AS_STRING(self) (assert(PyByteArray_Check(self)),((PyByteArrayObject *)(self))->ob_bytes)
+#define PyByteArray_AS_STRING(self) \
+ (assert(PyByteArray_Check(self)), \
+ Py_SIZE(self) ? ((PyByteArrayObject *)(self))->ob_bytes : _PyByteArray_empty_string)
#define PyByteArray_GET_SIZE(self) (assert(PyByteArray_Check(self)),Py_SIZE(self))
+extern char _PyByteArray_empty_string[];
+
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif